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The officials asked the DMG personnel to cut through the burnt junction box and collected samples and voltage readings from the box. So the more water the firemen used to douse the blaze, the more the chemicals spread and so did the fire,” said a senior forensic official after completing a two-hour-twenty-minute long inspection of the fire-ravaged building on Thursday morning. Even the building housed several shops that stored deodorant cans.“These liquids float on the water. It looks like there was a sudden surge in voltage that caused an electrical fire, which set the makeshift stall afire and then spread to the market,” said the official. KOLKATA: The first four hours of firefighting at Bagri Market did more harm than good in containing the fire on early on Sunday, forensic officials implied on Thursday.According to them, the explosion of the deodorant cans in the makeshift stall outside the Bagri Market released inflammable propane and isobutane that are insoluble in water..