prayagraj as many as 759 fire incidents were reported in sangam city from january 1 and may 31 this year however fire personnel managed to rescue as many as 121 persons from separate fire incidents as well ironically this years worst fire incident was reported on april 1 when a major fire broke out at nehru complex in chowk area under the limits of kotwali police station and 12 shops were entirely gutted however timely intervention of joint teams of fire department police and administration had saved 198 shops located at the same complex after deploying more than 15 fire tendersfigures of district fire department revealed increased number of fire incidents with revery year as 748 1122 and 1410 cases of fire incidents were reported in 2020 2021 and 2022 respectivelystatistics also claimed that there were major 11 fire incidents reported in city between april 2021 and may 31 2023 chief fire officer prayagraj rk pandey told toi fire department personnel have rescued as many as 121 persons in a total 759 cases of fire incidents recorded between january 1 and may 31 this year we are taking up a series of awareness and educational camps at various departments government and private high rise buildings to apprise city residents about the factors responsible behind fire breakingfacts suggests that majority of fire incidents 68 were triggered by short circuits in godowns residents hotels and shops while cooking gas leakage was the second major cause of blaze 17cfo said majority of fire incidents often occur in summer season and among them most of the fire incidents are attributed to short circuits or throwing burning articles in fields besides there has been incidents of transformers catching fire in summer season as well fire officials claimed the incidence of short circuits often occur when a lowresistance path not suited to carry electricity receives a high volume of current resulting in damage to appliances