{"id":7328,"date":"2015-02-25T15:19:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T15:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/02\/25\/sikh-temple-fire\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T14:21:37","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T14:21:37","slug":"sikh-temple-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2015\/02\/25\/sikh-temple-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Sikh Temple Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fire Breaks out in Leicester Sikh Temple Where Hundreds were Evacuated<\/h3>\n

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Hundreds of people had to be evacuated after a fire broke out at a Leicester city Sikh Temple. The temple\u2019s caretaker was alerted of the fire in a top floor store-room after the fire alarm sounded. Nobody was hurt although fire fighters had to prevent people from running back to retrieve the Guru Granth Sahib – the holy book of Sikhs.<\/p>\n

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Surinderpal Singh Rai, education secretary at the temple, said, \u201cI only live three or four minutes away. There were a few hundred people in the building and when I got here everyone was being evacuated quite smoothly.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe top floor is only used for storage. When the fire alarm went off the caretaker went to have a look but couldn\u2019t put it out and called the fire brigade who were here quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He added, \u201cThere are special prayers said for the elderly on a Tuesday between 11am and 12 noon.<\/p>\n

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\u201cNormally people would have been in a hall above the ground floor, but thankfully they hadn\u2019t moved upstairs before the fire broke out.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate we\u2019ve had a fire, but it has only affected the top of the building, it could have been worse. We\u2019ll soon have the show on the road again.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Centre manager Surinder Kaur Barth said, \u201cWhen I heard the alarm I thought it was a practice, but one of my colleagues said it was an actual fire.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe started getting people out of the building, checking toilets and went upstairs to get people out as quickly as possible, there were possibly 300 or more here.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe evacuation was quite orderly, but some people tried to go back in to get the Guru Granth Sahib.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Crew manager Rob Green, from the city\u2019s eastern fire station who was present at the scene, said, \u201cThere was a lot of black smoke coming from the top floor and a lot of people coming out.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt was difficult to stop a small number of people going back inside to get the holy books.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Station manager Paul Purser said, \u201cIt was a bad enough fire, but it had the potential to involve the whole of the premises.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe crews did a good job to stop it spreading. I would appeal to people in a fire not to go back in to get belongings no matter how treasured, but to get themselves out and leave us to fight the fire.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Parts of East Park Road, St Saviours Road, St Barnabus Road and Green Lane Road, in Leicester, were closed off during the incident.<\/p>\n

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Cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n

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