On Diwali night, multiple fire incidents occurred in Kanpur and Etawah, resulting in significant property damage
Around 400 sacks of potatoes, cash and belongings of pallet handlers were reduced to ashes. KANPUR: A series of fire incidents on Diwali night in Kanpur and Etawah destroyed five shops, a warehouse and a potato wholesale shop, causing losses worth lakhs of rupees. In a separate incident in Etawah, an elderly woman suffered severe burns after her sari caught fire while she was offering prayers at a temple. In Kanpur, a firecracker spark is suspected to have ignited quilts and mattresses stored at a factory and warehouse run by Bunty Agrawal on the ground floor of his house in Shyam Nagar B Block under Chakeri police station area. Agrawal, who lived upstairs with his family, had stocked substantial goods ahead of winter. Despite efforts by pallet handlers, the fire could not be controlled.
In another incident, a short circuit triggered a massive fire at Gautam Aloo Company’s potato wholesale shop in Chakarpur Mandi under Sachendi police station limits on Sunday night.
Jajmau fire officer Mohammad Shameem said three fire tenders brought the blaze under control. several shops and a medical store were gutted in Etawah While a family narrowly escaped a fire at a quilt and mattress factory in Kanpur. As smoke spread, Agrawal, his father Vijay Agrawal, mother, wife and child managed to escape.