Once again, fire breaks out at Sonsoddo garbage dump in Goa

MARGAO: A fire broke out at the garbage dump at Sonsoddo on Sunday evening causing anxiety among locals and triggering memories of the blaze that engulfed the area for nearly a week in May last year.
Firefighters were engaged in the firefighting exercise until Sunday night.
Nitin Raikar, deputy director of fire and emergency services, who was supervising the firefighting said that five tenders were used for the operations until 8pm.
“The fire has been brought under control. We have now requisitioned mud for dousing the flames,” Raikar said, adding that the cause of the fire that broke out in the sanitary landfill-end is yet to be ascertained.
Following last year’s week-long fire at Sonsoddo, a survey worker suffered burn injuries from electrocution in another fire incident on June 5.
The level staff held by him atop the baled stack of dry waste had accidentally touched the overhead 33KV high tension electric line thereby electrocuting him. The spark generated by the short circuit had triggered a raging fire as the large stack of dry waste piled up near the legacy dump went up in flames.