Ritika
The heart of the people present there trembled when the first dead body was taken out from the house engulfed in flames and smoke at 10.10 am. The body was completely burnt, so the body could not be identified on the spot. After this, four dead bodies were taken out one after the other. A body was later found. Later all were identified.
While extinguishing the fire, the condition of fire employee Jitendra Pal deteriorated, along with removing him from there, the fellow employees made him drink water and made him lie in the open away from the spot. It is said that while controlling the fire, Jitendra started suffocating due to smoke.
The flames in Raman Prakash’s house were visible from a distance of about one kilometer. The fire department as well as the local people were seen completely helpless to save the house engulfed in flames and control the fire. The fire had engulfed the entire house.
People from nearby houses also came out of their houses. The flames also caused cracks in the nearby houses. Panic spread in the area due to the explosion of the inverter batteries kept in the house. The fire that broke out in the house at 10.30 pm could be brought under control at around 10.15 pm.
When the batteries exploded, their chemicals added fuel to the fire. There was discussion among the people that the fire took a dreadful form due to the chemicals in the batteries. If there were no batteries in the house, it might not have taken so long to control the fire and five lives would not have been lost. Everyone is shocked by the fire.
