             Jammu: Several residential houses gutted in fire
Aman Zutshi
Jammu: A devastating fire broke out in a locality in Bhaderwah in Jammu’s Doda district on Thursday, damaging at least seven residential houses and a restaurant. The incident occurred in the early hours of dawn, and firefighters arrived very late at the scene as alleged by the victims of the blaze.
According to the report, the incident occurred when a blaze broke out and engulfed 7 homes and a restaurant in a neighbourhood in Bhaderwah of Doda.
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“I had a three-storey house which had 18 rooms and which have been reduced to ash now. I only heard a scream outside which pulled me out of house and I thought that I have become late for early morning Namaz.
“I apprised my wife that I’m late today for the Namaz. My brother was stuck inside the fire when the blaze broke out and he was not able to come outside because of it.
“He rescued his kids and and himself with great difficulty from the raging blaze and ran out of the house. Our relatives doused the flames I thought the fire tenders would come on time for us but they didn’t came and we doused the flames all by ourselves.
“The fire fighters took a generator near a stream which flows nearby our house and used its water to control the fire but it ran for 20 minutes only.
“If the fire tenders might have done something in time the houses could have been saved”, said a man whose house gutted in blaze”, one of the victims of the blaze incident told media.
