The Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defence Department says none of their previous recommendations to protect from any fire was implemented by the DNCC market authorities.
The recommendations were made after the 2017 fire at this market, said Major Shakil Newaj, director (operation and maintenance) of the BFSCDD Headquarters during a media briefing the media following a fire incident there on Saturday morning.
Among the recommendations was keeping collection of adequate water to fight any major fire, "but we had to bring water from a far to douse it today," he said.
He ponted out that there was no crowd and the roads were empty, which made it easier for them to bring the fire under control early in the morning.
Over 150 stores at the kitchen market were gutted in the blaze, and some stores at the nearby five-storey Gulshan Shopping Centre damaged.
The DNCC Market, which is adjacent to the makeshift market affected by fire, however, did not suffer any significant damage.
Twenty firefighting units battled the fire which was completely doused around 8:25 am. Army, Navy and Air Force members also joined them.
No casualty took place in the incident.
Owners of businesses at the kitchen market said there was none of them inside the market overnight as it was a weekly holiday for them today (Saturday).
The cause of the fire and its extent of losses in monetary value could not be known immediately.
Just two days ago, on Thursday, a deadly fire ripped through a high-rise in Dhaka's Banani that claimed 25 lives and injured more than 70 others.
On January 3, 2017, a devastating fire ravaged much of the DNCC market at Gulshan-1, reducing it to rubble. Though no casualty took place, the damage from the blaze was put at around Tk 5.0 billion.