Not a burning issue yet- Ranganathan Street, T.Nagar
Fire broke out at Saravana Stores in Ranganathan Street this week (no, not the one opposite Panagal Park). This had to happen at some point of time and I refer to my previous post on this. Luckily it happened early in the morning thereby preventing any loss of life.
We hope that atleast now the Government would wake up, take stock of the situation and put an end to these violations. Assuming this had happened during peak shopping hours (Aadi sale!!), the loss in terms of both life and property would have been phenomenal. It could have ended up being catastrophic.
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September 2nd, 2008 at 5:01 pm
A snapshot of how this looked like.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pvbrp/2817783637/
September 4th, 2008 at 8:33 am
The Town Hall area in Coimbatore is yet another Ranganathan Street in the making. And I’m sure that each and every city in India will have such an area.
September 4th, 2008 at 8:33 am
Sorry; should have been ‘has such an area’. Not ‘will have such an area’.
September 4th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Bharad – Thanks for the pic. Heard that the smokes were visible even from the Kodambakkam bridge.
@ Krishnan – yup, every place has such area. But Ranganatha Street-Usman Road is horrible.
September 10th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
The burning issue will soon become cold, as the flames die down. Nothing will be done to avoid a re occurrence, with safety taken for granted.