A lifetime's worth of money is gone in an instant

72-year-old Nathu Harijan of Rohini-5 Tarkulaha in Rupandehi was looking for anything left to burn when he reached there on Wednesday afternoon. He would sit on the floor in a daze, and tear up after looking at the burnt object again.

After the fire that broke out last Saturday afternoon, Nathu became despondent. 5 houses where a family of 16 people live were burnt by the fire that spread from the farm. 5 of his 6 sons had a house in the same place. Although they built a different house, they were living in their father's house for 10 years. The fire has turned their hard work to ashes.

Nathu has a son in India. The sons Chattu, Avataram, Dharmaraj, Omprakash and Ramdam had gone to work at the time of the fire. Nathu was at home with his daughter-in-law and grandchildren. "When we saw the fire coming from the back field, the whole house started screaming," said Monka, who was at home, "we went to call our fathers who had gone to work, and ran to save the lives of our younger brothers and sisters." .

'It was the same bush made by the sorrow of life,' he said, 'everything burned, we were ruined.' Chattu works in an industry 4 km away from home. He said that he used to sew clothes while staying at home. The fire also burnt her clothes sewing machine. "One of the machines that I bought immediately burned," he said. is He said that all the clothes except those on the body were burnt.

Rohini-6 55-year-old Chedi Chaudhary of Chamkipur was burnt down in front of his eyes. On Saturday afternoon, two buffaloes, 35 pairs of pigeons, 8 goats died in his eyes. The fire gutted Chedi's furniture industry, 4 bicycles, 8 quintals of rice and all the household contents. His family of 8 managed to escape and survive. "We got an injury that will not be forgotten in life," she said.

She said that she could not find out who started the fire from where and the wind brought the fire to the house. His neighbor Maya Choudhary's house was also burnt by the fire. Her husband is in Malaysia. Maya, who lives in a 2-bedroom house with a son and a daughter, saw all her belongings including a scooter, 2 bicycles, pigeons, chickens, ducks and a TV inside the house gutted in the fire on Saturday afternoon. "When the fire broke out, nothing could be saved, she ran to live," she said.

She said that seeing such a disaster for the first time, she did not know what to do. Chowdhury said that after the property that her husband acquired by working in another country was reduced to ashes in a fire, she was staying with a neighbor for shelter. "Others are in the same situation, how many days will they stay like this?," she said, "I can't imagine becoming my own home, where to live, what to eat, what to wear?" Everything was shattered.' She said that she could not tell her husband who is abroad that the house was burnt.

Harijan, a forest resident of Rohini-4, has also suffered more in the burning of the pumpset, suction pipe and tool-making machine along with his house. His 2 sons are working in Mumbai. He said that while his daughter-in-law, daughter and grandchildren were in the house, the fire came to the house from the road in front of the house. 'I was working in front of the house, my grandchildren were riding a bicycle,' he said, 'We all ran away after seeing the fire, I didn't know how long we ran away from the village to another village.' He said that he saw it. He said that he had to starve because there was no ration in the house where there were many people. According to him, the rural municipality and the Satyasai Service Organization have provided food to the victims of the fire.

98 houses in Rohini-4, 5 and 6 wards have been damaged by the fire. Among them, 48 houses were partially damaged and 50 houses were completely burnt. Vidya Prasad Yadav, chairman of the rural municipality, said that it took more than 3 hours to put out the fire with the help of fire brigade, armed police, army and locals. He said that food has been provided to the victim's family for the time being.