Three cars burnt to ashes after transformer short circuit in Gurugram

Police said that the incident took place at around 10.45pm when a short circuit in one of the transformers ignited dry vegetation on the ground

Updated on: May 23, 2023, 23:49:27 IST

By Debashish Karmakar

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At least three parked cars in Sector 15’s Part 2 were reduced to ashes after a massive spark from a transformer nearby caused a blaze on Monday night, police said on Tuesday

Residents said that the fire department was also alerted and at least two to three tenders reached the spot and doused the flames after an hour-long firefighting. (Parveen Kumar/HT)

Police said that a Tata Safari was the first to catch fire. It was parked below three transformers of the Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam Limited (DHBVN) that were installed on the internal road of the area.

Police said that the incident took place at around 10.45pm when a short circuit in one of the transformers ignited dry vegetation on the ground.

Investigators said that the fire first spread to the Safari which caught fire. All hell broke loose when the stationary Safari suddenly started rolling forward. Police said that it then collided with two parked cars — a Honda City and a Hyundai i20.

Residents said that the fire department was also alerted and at least two to three tenders reached the spot and doused the flames after an hour-long firefighting.

“It took us around an hour to completely douse the flames. No one was injured in the incident,” Dinesh Kumar, the fire officer of Bhim Nagar fire station, said.

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Debashish Karmakar
Debashish Karmakar is a principal correspondent with the Hindustan Times, Gurugram bureau. He has a vast journalistic experience of almost 14 years of covering crime, court, power, transport, administration, weather and other beats while working across various organisations. He has been covering Gurugram, Faridabad, Nuh, Palwal and other districts of southern Haryana for more than four and a half years. He has produced several breaking and exclusive stories while reporting from the ground where he maintains a strong presence on a daily basis. He writes news articles which are hard-hitting and accurate. With his strong bureaucratic sources, he frequently writes stories to expose the failure of the system forcing authorities to take necessary course-corrective steps. Besides crime, important convictions and court orders, he also writes on human-angle stories, on power issues and challenges faced by the residents on a daily basis in Gurugram and neighbouring areas. In the past, he worked for media houses like The Times of India, where he extensively reported on important government matters and daily proceedings at the Patna High Court. He has also worked in the electronic media and had done ground coverage on the Kedarnath deluge that wrecked Uttarakhand in 2013.Read More