THE GOAN NETWORK
CANACONA
Canacona fire personnel were kept on their toes attending three incidents of falling of trees, while a house was gutted by fire in different parts of Canacona on Sunday.
According to fire services sources, a call was received at 4.45 am stating that a house caught fire at Shristhal.The cause of the fire was a short-circuit and TV, refrigerator and furniture were destroyed on the first floor of the house, before fire personnel stopped further damages. The loss is estimated to be Rs 50 lakh.
In three different tree felling incidents, electricity alignments were reportedly damaged, before fire services personnel rushed to remove the trees, helping the electricity staff to restore the power services.
At Rajbag-Tarir, a coconut tree fell on the road bringing down electricity alignments and disrupting power supply. Another tree fell on the electricity alignment bringing it down at Vagon-Khola forcing residents to go without power for most of the day on Sunday, while a jackfruit tree fell and snapped electricity alignments at Nanem-Gaondongrim, where power supply was restored later in the day, informed sources.
Leading fire fighter Ulhas Gaonkar, fire fighters Ganesh Naik, Gautam Velip, L K Deikar, driver-cum-operator P D Velip were part of the teams that rushed to the distress sites.
