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| Damaged dwellings of fire victims |
Twenty two thatched huts
were gutted in a fire caused by an electrical short circuit in Kuthuppapallam
slum near the birds’ road in Trichy in the early hours of Tuesday, 12 March
2019.The blast aggravated the fire which spread to nearby thatched huts.Though
neither any casualty nor any injuries were reported in the accident, properties
worth lakhs of rupees were reduced to ashes.
22 Huts were totally damaged and people have no place to stay, currently
the slum dwellers stay in the road side. 127 people including children and old
people stay in open air. Some local people provided basic food for the first
day. SEVAI, a Trichy based NGO distributed blankets and tarpaulins for the roofs
damaged families as interim arrangement with the support of local youth. District
Welfare Committee provided Rs.1500 per fire victims’ family for
22 families for
immediate and emergency expences especially for children and old age people. The
fire victims express that all these 22 damaged huts dwellers need renovation of
the devastated huts. There is an urgent need to speed up the renovation as
in-situ shelter with fire proof roofs. It is also important to retrieve the
damaged records from Government sources and bring back the peoples life to
normalcy. –Kris.
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| DWC Treasurer handsover Rs.33000 for fire vidtims |
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