calangute a major fire in the early hours of saturday destroyed 14 shops on calangutes holiday street at gauravaddo a tea shop operating from the verandah of an adjoining house was partially damaged and a car parked at the spot was also gutted however no injuries were reportedthe fire broke out around 3am while the new years celebrations were going on all around in the tourism hub officials from the pilerne fire station said they reached the spot in 10 mins after they received a call at 330am they were joined by a fire tender from mapusa the fire was doused by 6amthe tea shop owner sajjan morya said they had closed the shops around 2am and had gone to sleep in a room next to the shops he said he was woken up by loud sounds of the fire bending the metal sheets of the shop walls when i came out i saw some of the shops on fire by the time i woke others up the fire had spread to all the shops he said adding some of the shop owners were having food at the time in their rooms close bythe shops were selling clothes beachwear bags and imitation jewellery morya said all the shop owners are from nepal and had brought large amounts of fresh stock for the peak tourist season the fire officials said the quantum of loss is yet to be ascertained morya said the loss is likely to be around rs 35 lakh the shop owners will be submitting the statements of their losses on monday stating that the cause of the fire is not known yet a fire official said we will be able to state the cause of fire only after we get reports from the electricity department and the police who are also investigating the matterthe fire fighters were led by rupesh sawant and dg pednekar the shops were erected on the property belonging to esmelda gomes the shop owners met ports minister and calangute mla michael lobo seeking government assistance