{"id":136372,"date":"2020-09-04T01:00:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T19:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=136372"},"modified":"2020-09-04T01:00:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T19:30:44","slug":"govt-quarters-reduced-to-ashes-in-pasighat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/09\/04\/govt-quarters-reduced-to-ashes-in-pasighat\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt quarters reduced to ashes in Pasighat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>[Staff Reporter]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Sep 3:<\/strong> A Type-II government quarters in Kali Mandir Colony here in East Siang district was reduced to ashes on Thursday morning between 8 am to 8:30 am, engulfing all the belongings of the occupants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pasighat-fire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-136376 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pasighat-fire.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pasighat-fire.jpg 340w, https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pasighat-fire-300x142.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a>According to Banik Tayeng, the dweller of the house, he along with his wife had gone to Mebo for some work when his daughter called him up at around 8:40 am, informing him about the fire.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;By the time we reached back home, we just stood there on the corner and saw the flame blazing. We could not do anything. We couldn&#8217;t even save a needle,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The house was allotted in the name of Tayeng&#8217;s wife, Aroty Pertin, a nursing officer at the Bakin Pertin General Hospital. Tayeng himself is an accountant in the textile &amp; handicrafts department.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Their three children were still sleeping when the fire broke out in the house.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The only things they could take out at that time were their blankets,&#8221; Tayeng said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is assumed that the fire started due to a short-circuit in the extended local kitchen of the quarters, which engulfed the entire quarters and also spread to the next quarters in line, damaging it partially.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The fire only partially damaged the other quarters as by that time the fire tender had already reached and doused the fire,&#8221; Tayeng said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Staff Reporter] ITANAGAR, Sep 3: A Type-II government quarters in Kali Mandir Colony here in East Siang district was reduced to ashes on Thursday morning between 8 am to 8:30 am, engulfing all the belongings of the occupants. According to Banik Tayeng, the dweller of the house, he along with his wife had gone to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-136372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}