With the advent of summer, two fire mishaps took place in and around the steel city on Sunday.

One of the fire mishaps took place at a forest stretch in Kandra in the adjoining Seraikela-Kharsawan district about 15 km away from here on Sunday morning, while the other one took place at a potato and onion shop near Sankata Singh Petrol Pump on Jugsalai Station Road under Bagbera thana area at the wee hours of Sunday.

The owner of the potato shop Rajendra Prasad Gupta closed his shop at 10.30 pm on Saturday but when he came to open it at 8.30 am on Sunday, he found the shop and the vegetables charred to carbon.

“It was the third time within a span of six months that my shop caught fire during the night. I have no power connection at the shop. I don't know whether the fire breaks out accidentally or someone sets the shop on fire,” wondered Gupta while talking to the correspondent.

Bagbera thana OC Rajendra Prasad Singh said the police had spotted the fire at the potato shop at around 1 am on Sunday.

“We had pressed a fire tender having informed the Jharkhand Fire Brigade but by the time the fire tender came, the shop was gutted,” the OC said while talking to The Telegraph Online.

He said they are trying to find out the reason behind the mishap.

The other fire mishap took place at a forest stretch close to Anand Marg Middle School in Kandra.

The fire broke out at around 11 am at the forest and started to spread rapidly, attracting the passerby's notice. Soon Kandra police were informed, leading the police to make two fire tenders to reach the spot. “The fire had spread to a vast stretch, but timely action prevented the spread further,” said Rajan Kumar, OC, Kandra thana while talking to The Telegraph Online.