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SMOKY REMAINS: Residents of hutments salvaging whatever is left of their belongings from the ashes of a blaze that broke out in Pattalam on Monday. — Photo: K.Pichumani
CHENNAI: Two persons were killed in a fire that razed about 100 huts in Pattalam near Perambur on Monday. Hussain Basha (70), who was physically disabled, and Rajeswari (40) died, Fire and Rescue Services said. The fire has also displaced 247 families living in the hutments on Perambur Barracks Road. Chief Minister Jayalalithaa expressed condolences to the families of the deceased and announced a solatium of Rs. 50,000 each. The fire started around 1.30 p.m. from a stove in one of the huts, police said. Rajeswari was unwell and lay in her hut. Her daughters were rescued. The displaced persons have been put up in a Chennai Corporation building. Officials and elected representatives, including N. Balaganga, Slum Clearance Board Chairman, and M. P. Vijayakumar, Corporation Commissioner, visited the spot. The ground where the huts stood was used by the dhobikhana to dry clothes. Civic officials said some of the people who had been allotted houses in the adjacent Slum Clearance Board tenements gave them on rent and occupied the open space. Others from K.M. Garden area had also settled here.
Educative CDs
S.K. Dogra, Director, Fire and Rescue Services, said, "The Fire and Rescue Services Department is taking very fundamental steps to build up effective preventive action and one of the steps that may produce dramatic results is the production and screening of educative CDs. Groundwork has already been done in this direction and we have procured four digital video cameras and seven digital still cameras for use in Chennai. We hope to start producing and using these educative CDs within a few weeks. "At present, investigation of fire cases is with the Police Department. With the changing scenario, sooner or later the Fire and Rescue Services may also start playing a role in the formal investigation of causes of fires."
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