New Delhi:  A huge outbreak was reported in Delhi’s Karol Bagh Gafar’s Market in the early hours of Sunday, which resulted in losses of tones of crores of rupees, shop owners said. “Nobody got hurt in the accident, Delhi Fire Service officials said.” They said that they received a call in the morning near about 4:16 am, after which 39 fire tenders were sent for the action. 

“The fire outbreak came into control by 9 am but the operation of the cooling down continued till late evening. The shops where the fire took place were full of combustible materials which is why small fires keep erupting even when the cooling-off operations were going on,” Garg Said 

The claim of the Shop Owners’

The President of Karol Bagh’s Wholesale Footwear Association, Dharam Pal Arora age 60 said he owns a footwear wholesale shop in the lane where the fire broke out and one of the security guards informed him about this, it was 4 am when the guard spotted the fire in the building located few meters away from my shop. “After that, he called me to inform me about the Fire outbreak and I informed to fire department. Fortunately, they were there in half an hour,” he said. 

“The fire broke out in about three or four buildings and up to seven to eight wholesale shops so as of now it would be very difficult to assess the exact figure of loss but the loss may count up to crores,” He said 

The fire department official said, “that fighting a fire in such areas is very difficult because of the narrow lanes and low hanging of electric wires. The spaces are too less that even humans can’t even walk, hoe can big tenders could reach there, so they parked at a distance. They used a sky lift, and at least four-fives hosepipes were attached to each tender which they parked on the main road to throw water on the fire,” officials said. 

“The was a lack of sourcing of water that’s why 39 fire tenders were sent at the spot for the action into which 20 were dousing the fire and rest were getting water,” officials said. The fire caused anger on the main road when the Delhi Traffic Police issued an advisory on Social Media, “Kindly avoid Gurudwara Road, Ajmal Khan Road between 1000 hrs. to 1800 hrs. due to the fire incident that took place in Gafar Market (footwear),” the traffic police tweeted.

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