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Fire razes Wamrong town

9 October 2009

Eleven houses, including nine shops, in Wamrong, Trashigang, were razed to ground by a fire yesterday afternoon. The fire that started from an electric short circuit displaced 26 families.
Kincho, from whose house the fire started, said she had smelt something burning from the TV room while she was cooking. Upon inspection, she had found that her house was already on fire.
While nothing could be salvaged from the two houses from where the fire spread, most belongings from the rest of huts were retrieved. No casualties were reported, though. The small Wamrong town is on the Trashigang-Samdrup Jongkhar highway. Most houses are traditional, which led to the rapid spread of fire.
By the time two fire fighting vehicles from Trashigang police station reached the scene, eight houses had been reduced to ashes. Upon arrival at the site, lack of water hampered firefighting efforts.
Trashigang Dzongda Lungten Dorji told Observer that Dantak helped the firefighting team battle the flames by fetching water from their tankers. “People were in a state of shock but things are under control now,” said the Dzongda.
According to Wamrong Dungdpa, students, workers and dungkhang officials were mobilized to contain the fire. He said the blaze was under control after 3 pm.
Last night, the victims were put up in the school multipurpose hall where food was cooked for them.
The BCCI office in Samdrup Jongkhar sent a consignment of food for the victims. Trashigang dzongkhag administration also distributed food items, blankets and mattresses to the victims through the Unicef.
When the whole nation had experienced continuous rainfall on Tuesday and Wednesday, Wamrong had remained dry. Therefore, it was presumed that power fluctuation had led to the electric short-circuit.
Dechen Palden, a shopkeeper, was most affected by the fire. She said she had lost more than Nu 3 million worth of goods. Meanwhile, on Wednesdy, a fire gutted the attic of a three-storied building in Gelephu.

Wamrong in trashigangEleven houses, including nine shops, in Wamrong, Trashigang, were razed to ground by a fire yesterday afternoon. The fire that started from an electric short circuit displaced 26 families.

Kincho, from whose house the fire started, said she had smelt something burning from the TV room while she was cooking. Upon inspection, she had found that her house was already on fire.

While nothing could be salvaged from the two houses from where the fire spread, most belongings from the rest of huts were retrieved. No casualties were reported, though. The small Wamrong town is on the Trashigang-Samdrup Jongkhar highway. Most houses are traditional, which led to the rapid spread of fire.

By the time two fire fighting vehicles from Trashigang police station reached the scene, eight houses had been reduced to ashes. Upon arrival at the site, lack of water hampered firefighting efforts.

Trashigang Dzongda Lungten Dorji told Observer that Dantak helped the firefighting team battle the flames by fetching water from their tankers. “People were in a state of shock but things are under control now,” said the Dzongda.

According to Wamrong Dungdpa, students, workers and dungkhang officials were mobilized to contain the fire. He said the blaze was under control after 3 pm.

Last night, the victims were put up in the school multipurpose hall where food was cooked for them.

The BCCI office in Samdrup Jongkhar sent a consignment of food for the victims. Trashigang dzongkhag administration also distributed food items, blankets and mattresses to the victims through the Unicef.

When the whole nation had experienced continuous rainfall on Tuesday and Wednesday, Wamrong had remained dry. Therefore, it was presumed that power fluctuation had led to the electric short-circuit.

Dechen Palden, a shopkeeper, was most affected by the fire. She said she had lost more than Nu 3 million worth of goods.

Meanwhile, on Wednesdy, a fire gutted the attic of a three-storied building in Gelephu.

By Tempa Wangdi in Wamrong and Sonam Pelden

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