On 16th august a massive fire caught on a slum that ravaged several thousand shanties at a slum in Mirpur 7 of Dhaka. As many as 125 firefighters brought the blaze under control just before midnight on Friday, according to the Fire Service and Civil Defense.More than 1,000 shanties of the slum were burnt in the fire. The huge fire turned thousands of the lower-income slum residents homeless and left nothing for them other than charred valuables, and despair. The dwellers just fled their homes with whatever they found at hand. Their cries made the entire atmosphere gloomier, burdened with thoughts of their uncertain future.