Growing fire incidents panicked city people
Staff Reporter :
Growing fire incidents in Dhaka city have panicked city dwellers in the recent time particularly after FR Tower fire, which claimed 26 lives.
The fire gossip took places among the people in offices, mass-transport, and tea stalls in city about the recent death and losses of property.
Fire Service and Civil Defence (FRCD) official said, fire incidents in the city’s skyscrapers are nothing new. Cramped buildings, narrow alleyways, lack of fire security kits and inadequate fire exits in the skyscrapers are often considered as causes of disasters.
In latest fire incident early on Thursday at least 30 shops were gutted in a fire that jerked two markets in Khilgaon area of Dhaka.
Getting information, 16 units of firefighters doused the fire around 5:35am, over two hours after it originated at the kitchen market, Lima Khanam, Duty Officer of Fire Service and Civil Defense headquarters, told reporters.
Further details about the losses and the origin of the fire could be known after investigation, the official said.
A fireman named Abu Musa, 35, sustained minor injuries while he was trying to douse the fire, she added.
The fire first broke out at a kitchen market and later engulfed the adjacent
market around 3:30am, said Abul Kalam Mollah, a businessman, whose shop was gutted.
A hardware businessman, Sanaullah, said he rushed to his shop immediately after he was informed about the fire but found his goods gutted.
A total of 10 shops were damaged at a kitchen market named “Uttara market” and at least 20 shops were gutted at the adjacent market, he said.
The Khilgaon fire incident happened just a week after a huge fire at the Gulshan-1 DNCC kitchen market in which at least 200 shops were completely gutted.
The fire at Gulshan-1 DNCC market came only days after the Banani inferno which claimed 26 lives.
A month ago a huge fire ripped through Old Dhaka’s Chawkbazar area on February 20, leaving 71 people dead.
The Chawkbazar fire, which sparked from a chemical warehouse, is the second deadliest chemical-fuelled fire in the country after the Nimtoli fire incident that had killed 124 people and injured many others on June 3, 2010.
Growing fire incidents in Dhaka city have panicked city dwellers in the recent time particularly after FR Tower fire, which claimed 26 lives.
The fire gossip took places among the people in offices, mass-transport, and tea stalls in city about the recent death and losses of property.
Fire Service and Civil Defence (FRCD) official said, fire incidents in the city’s skyscrapers are nothing new. Cramped buildings, narrow alleyways, lack of fire security kits and inadequate fire exits in the skyscrapers are often considered as causes of disasters.
In latest fire incident early on Thursday at least 30 shops were gutted in a fire that jerked two markets in Khilgaon area of Dhaka.
Getting information, 16 units of firefighters doused the fire around 5:35am, over two hours after it originated at the kitchen market, Lima Khanam, Duty Officer of Fire Service and Civil Defense headquarters, told reporters.
Further details about the losses and the origin of the fire could be known after investigation, the official said.
A fireman named Abu Musa, 35, sustained minor injuries while he was trying to douse the fire, she added.
The fire first broke out at a kitchen market and later engulfed the adjacent
market around 3:30am, said Abul Kalam Mollah, a businessman, whose shop was gutted.
A hardware businessman, Sanaullah, said he rushed to his shop immediately after he was informed about the fire but found his goods gutted.
A total of 10 shops were damaged at a kitchen market named “Uttara market” and at least 20 shops were gutted at the adjacent market, he said.
The Khilgaon fire incident happened just a week after a huge fire at the Gulshan-1 DNCC kitchen market in which at least 200 shops were completely gutted.
The fire at Gulshan-1 DNCC market came only days after the Banani inferno which claimed 26 lives.
A month ago a huge fire ripped through Old Dhaka’s Chawkbazar area on February 20, leaving 71 people dead.
The Chawkbazar fire, which sparked from a chemical warehouse, is the second deadliest chemical-fuelled fire in the country after the Nimtoli fire incident that had killed 124 people and injured many others on June 3, 2010.
