Major fire averted in Dimapur

Staff Reporter DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 10 A potentially disastrous incident was averted on Tuesday afternoon when the collective efforts of the Dimapur fire brigade and the residents of Landmark Colony, Dimapur managed to douse a fire that broke out from a kitchen in the locality. According to residents of the locality the fire broke out at around 2.40 pm while records from the Dimapur fire station indicated that it had received information of the same at 3.10 pm on Tuesday. At least three fire trucks were dispatched from the fire station. Even as the Dimapur fire brigade maintained that the cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained, the owners of the house that was burned down suggested that the fire might have started when the thatched walls of the kitchen caught on to flames from a hearth that was lighted to smoke-dry some pork meat – which is a common sight in almost all Naga kitchens. The fire completely razed down the kitchen while causing some heavy damages to the goods stored inside the rooms in the adjacent building. However, timely aid from the youths of the locality, and the Dimapur fire brigade, prevented the fire from spreading any further.