Srinagar, February 04 (Scoop News) –Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir Dr Asgar Hassan Samoon distributed relief items amongst the fire sufferers of Daribal Mohalla near Naqshband Sahib, Khanyar. He was accompanied by Addl Deputy Commissioner Srinagar Mohammed Akbar Ganai, Tehsildar North, Bashir Ahmed, Naib Tehsildar Khanyar, Nazir Ahmed and Shazia Kawoos, from State Red Cross Society.
Five houses, six shops and one band-saw gutted in a fire incident at Daribal during the intervening night of February 3rdand 4th. Three houses were fully damaged and two houses got partially damaged. The fully damaged houses belonging to Fayaz Ahmed Haji S/o Ali Mohammed Haji, Nazir Ahmed, Bashir Ahmed S/o Ghulam Rasool Sheikh, Mohammed Shafi S/o Abdul Rahim Guju were given Rs 10,00 each as relief and the two partially damaged houses belonging to Ghulam Mohammed Guju S/o Abdul Aziz Guju and Mohammed Sidiq S/o Lal Mohammed Guju got Rs 5,000 each from Div Com out of the Red Cross Funds. In addition to this relief material comprising of mattresses, blankets, kitchen sets and other household items from Disaster Management and State Red Cross were distributed amongst the affected families. Meanwhile, in another fire incident Red Cross distributed relief items amongst three affected families, at Shalakadal.
In order to prevent the fire incidents in future, the Divisional Disaster Management Authority Kashmir issued an advisory to people requesting them to arrange A type & ABC type fire extinguishers and keep them in their homes. Disaster Management is going to organise awareness programmes for the community so that they learn the method to use fire extinguishers, in order to put out small fires and prevent them from converting to big and unmanageable fires. In case of fires people have been advised to call toll free number 101 and give exact address of the incident so that fire tenders can easily locate it.