ahmedabad fire broke out in laati bazaar near gita mandir st bus depot on monday at 230 am though nobody was injured in the incident a huge quantity of wood and three shops were charred in the incidentthe control room of ahmedabad fire and emergency services afes was alerted by owners of one of the shops that were gutted in the episode a total of 22 fire fighters were pressed into service and teams headed by the chief fire officer of afes mf dastoor rushed to tackle the inferno that was raging in the market that is situated close to the bustling bus terminuslaati bazaar is one of the wood marts located in the walled city where wood is sold for constructions of buildings furniture and fire wood there were so many highly combustible materials around this place that it became a struggle to contain the fire to the shops that were already charred it was a fight that lasted through the night for over five hours before the fire could be brought under control the fire gutted four shops and charred a huge quantity of wood worth rs 15 crore said fire brigade officials later firemen said that the fire first gutted sayonara decorators a shop in the bazaar by the time the fire brigade personnel reached there it was a raging fire that had spread to three other shops situated alongside another hurdle for the fire brigade officials was the marketplace is situated in a congested area even if we did manage to reach with our fire fighters to the vicinity of the market place the real trouble began when the water tankers emptied out it became extremely difficult and timeconsuming to reverse the tankers and bring them out for refilling said additional chief fire officer rajesh bhattbhatt added primarily this seems to be a fire caused by a small bon fire made by some guards who were stationed at latti bazaar may have caused the fire then there was no water refilling station nearby each time we had to travel all the way back to jamalpur fire station the fire that began at 230 am could be controlled only at 8 am it was fortunate that there were no casualties