Fire dept. gets 42 fire accident calls

The fire department got 42 calls on Wednesday, most of them for incidents related to the bursting of fire crackers.

Early Thursday morning, at around 3 am, a fire broke out in a timber depot near Bowenpally check post. Fire officer Durga Prasad said the wood stored in the depot could have caught fire due to firecrackers. It took 4 fire engines almost

4 hours to douse the fire. T.V. Rao, owner of the timber depot valued the wood that was gutted at

`2 crore and `50 lakh damage to the premises.

On Wednesday around

6.30 pm a small fire occurred in Malkajgiri. Police have booked a case against a grocery shop owner who opened a stall selling crackers in front of his grocery store without taking prior permission from the concerned authorities. According to Malkajgiri sub inspector of police L. Ramesh, the grocery shop owner N. Venkatesh had arranged the crackers in an open space in front of his shop. The crackers caught fire accidentally and went off in all directions, creating panic in the vicinity. Fortunately there were no casualties.

Firecrackers also ignited the cotton waste stored in a cycle shop in Shamirpet. Abdul Razak, sub inspector of police said, “The owner of the shop Shravan Kumar received simple injuries on his left knee and left hand and cycle tyres got burnt. Children were bursting firecrackers and accidently they fell on the cotton waste and a fire broke out in the shop at around 7 pm on Wednesday.”