{"id":18282,"date":"2026-06-08T06:16:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T00:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/watch-massive-fire-guts-13-shops-in-jks-poonch-engulfs-bufliaz-central-market-india-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T06:16:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T00:46:48","slug":"watch-massive-fire-guts-13-shops-in-jks-poonch-engulfs-bufliaz-central-market-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/watch-massive-fire-guts-13-shops-in-jks-poonch-engulfs-bufliaz-central-market-india-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Massive fire guts 13 shops in J&#038;K&#8217;s Poonch, engulfs Bufliaz Central Market | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131568124,imgsize-16908,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/131568124.jpg\" alt=\"Watch: Massive fire guts 13 shops in J&amp;K's Poonch, engulfs Bufliaz Central Market\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: Thirteen shops were gutted in a major fire that broke out in Poonch district of <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/jammu-and-kashmir\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Jammu and Kashmir<\/a> early on Sunday, officials said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"3\"\/>The blaze erupted around 5 am in Bufliaz Central Market along the Mughal Road, rapidly spreading through a row of mostly wooden and tin-roofed shops, PTI reported.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/>Local residents, assisted by Army and CRPF personnel, launched firefighting efforts before teams from the Fire and Emergency Services Department reached the spot. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"9\"\/>Videos circulating on social media showed massive flames engulfing the market, with property worth crores reportedly damaged.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/>An official from the Fire and Emergency Services Department said the fire was brought under control within 30 minutes of firefighting operations, preventing further destruction. <!-- -->No casualties were reported.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/>Preliminary investigations suggest the fire was triggered by a short circuit in one of the shops before spreading to adjacent structures, the official said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/>The incident has sparked anger among local residents and traders, who accused the civil administration of failing to respond promptly.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"22\"\/>&#8220;The absence of a fire station in the area turned this into a bigger tragedy. One fire tender from Surankote reached the spot more than an hour after the blaze broke out. We are grateful to the Army and CRPF personnel for their prompt response, which helped save at least four shops from being engulfed by the flames. Sadly, no representative of the civil administration visited the scene to assess the damage or offer assistance,&#8221; a fire victim told PTI.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"26\"\/>Affected traders and residents alleged that the delay in firefighting efforts allowed the flames to spread rapidly, causing extensive damage to shops and property.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"29\"\/>They demanded that a permanent fire station be established in the area, saying the lack of emergency infrastructure has repeatedly put lives and property at risk. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"31\"\/>Locals also urged the administration to conduct a detailed assessment of the losses and provide financial assistance to affected families and shopkeepers to help them rebuild their livelihoods.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"33\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/watch-massive-fire-guts-13-shops-in-jks-poonch-engulfs-bufliaz-central-market\/articleshow\/131567660.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Thirteen shops were gutted in a major fire that broke out in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir early on Sunday, officials said.The blaze erupted around 5 am in Bufliaz Central Market along the Mughal Road, rapidly spreading through a row of mostly wooden and tin-roofed shops, PTI reported.Local residents, assisted by Army [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-country"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}