This is the second incident of fire in last fortnight. On June 11, A similar fire 
had raged in Abhishek market, in which 18 shops were gutted down and goods worth several lakh were destroyed.
"It is high time that the textile markets come up with strict fire-safety provisions to prevent the loss of property and lives. Since the Ring Road areas, where majority of the markets are located, remain congested throughout the day and night, the damages due to such mishaps could be beyond anyone's imagination," said Devkishan Manghani, secretary of Federation of Surat Textile Traders' Association (FOSTTA).
Fire brigade sources said preliminary investigation in the Millennium market incident suggested the shops caught fire due to a short circuit. "The shops had a stock of synthetic and cotton sarees and dress materials. And, it took more than four hours to douse the fire," said Raju Gamit, divisional fire officer.
Sources told TOI that many shops share a partition of just about four to five inches wide whereas the same should be nine inches and more to prevent the fire from spreading further. Besides, many shops lack basic fire safety provisions, they said.
Also, had the incident on Thursday occurred during daytime, it would have been a Herculean task for fire tenders to reach the spot without a lot of delay, said G M Kothwala, chief fire officer in Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC).
Rakesh Agarwal, a textile trader at J J Market said, "Most of the textile shops are fitted with low quality electricity cables, responsible for leakages. Good quality cables are required for shops to prevent short circuit."
For further details visit as : indiatimes.com/Surat/Even-a-spark-can-trigger-fire-in-textile-markets/articleshow/4735724.
had raged in Abhishek market, in which 18 shops were gutted down and goods worth several lakh were destroyed."It is high time that the textile markets come up with strict fire-safety provisions to prevent the loss of property and lives. Since the Ring Road areas, where majority of the markets are located, remain congested throughout the day and night, the damages due to such mishaps could be beyond anyone's imagination," said Devkishan Manghani, secretary of Federation of Surat Textile Traders' Association (FOSTTA).
Fire brigade sources said preliminary investigation in the Millennium market incident suggested the shops caught fire due to a short circuit. "The shops had a stock of synthetic and cotton sarees and dress materials. And, it took more than four hours to douse the fire," said Raju Gamit, divisional fire officer.
Sources told TOI that many shops share a partition of just about four to five inches wide whereas the same should be nine inches and more to prevent the fire from spreading further. Besides, many shops lack basic fire safety provisions, they said.
Also, had the incident on Thursday occurred during daytime, it would have been a Herculean task for fire tenders to reach the spot without a lot of delay, said G M Kothwala, chief fire officer in Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC).
Rakesh Agarwal, a textile trader at J J Market said, "Most of the textile shops are fitted with low quality electricity cables, responsible for leakages. Good quality cables are required for shops to prevent short circuit."
For further details visit as : indiatimes.com/Surat/Even-a-spark-can-trigger-fire-in-textile-markets/articleshow/4735724.
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