kolkata the 26 families who call the fireravaged gariahat highrise home are uncertain on when their lives will return to normalcalcutta high court advocate suman ghosh has shifted his wife daughter and pet dalmatian poppins to his inlaws place in baranagar ghosh and son subhodal a jadavpur university firstyear history student chose to stay close in a hindustan park guest house overnight so that they could quickly reach home which is among the worst affectedthere is nothing left to be salvaged ghosh said but we cant sit back and ponder so i have started work already i have engaged people to first clean the house the bed other furniture my books and whatever we had even the ceiling fans have been destroyed we are now trying to make it habitableghosh says he spoke to cesc officials on restoring power at the earliest they told me that unless we furnish a noobjection certificate from the fire brigade and kmc electricity cannot be restored in the building we plan to write to kmc police and even the chief ministers office highlighting our plight we would also like to bring to the notice of the authorities the risk these hawkers in our locality pose ghosh fumedrathindranath samajpati the sskm doctor whose home is also among those affected by the blaze has temporarily shifted to a relatives home on ekdalia road naiwrita his 18yearold daughter said we have engaged people to clean up the rooms nothing seems to have been spared by the fire we are waiting for the home to be habitable enough to return but we are not sure when electricity will be restoredpoulami ganguly a doctor and her husband were among the few of the 26 families who chose to spend sunday night at their fireravaged home gangulys secondfloor home was spared as the flames leapt high for others however the night was horrificalmost everyone in this building chose to stay out ganguly said some had their homes completely devastated others who were spared the destruction stayed out in fear moreover there is no electricity and waterganguly says she chose to return home because she feared for her household items my inlaws have been living here for the last two decades i for four years since marriage when we left last night we couldnt take anything with us i feared losing everything i had so i returned with my husband to spend the night there she saiddebolina das and her child chose to spend sunday night in a nearby guest house on monday she moved to a relatives home in ganguly bagan while my home is not damaged i cannot stay there without electricity i was very scared on sunday and didnt waste a moment moving out with my son she said it was a similar story with raja banerjee his wife saswati and son soumya we were travelling to purulia and hence got saved but it is impossible to stay here now given the lack of electricity we