Goa, Aug. 24 -- The afternoon siesta this Sunday were disturbed by frantic calls to the Fire Brigade by the local Panch Francisco Braganza as the ancestral house of Dr. Sanjay Coelho caught fire.

In the interim Goa State Treasurer of the Congress Mr. Orville Dourado Rodrigues along with his resort personnel responded immediately with his portable fire fighting equipment and with the assistance of some local villagers managed to bring the huge inferno under control.

Though the Fire brigade personnel from Verna Fire Station were quick to respond to the emergency, they couldn't reach the heritage house which was barely 100 meters across the existing South Western Railway tracks as an irresponsible Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL) had destro...