SHASHANK SHEKHAR Rescue team members and BCCL officials outside the Godhar mines near Dhanbad on Monday. Picture by Gautam Dey Dhanbad, Sept. 8: A fire broke out late last evening at Kusunda colliery, about 9km from Dhanbad, forcing 400 families to be evacuated from near the open-cast mine belonging to Bharat Coking Coal Limited. Senior BCCL officials at the spot said it would take at least four to five days to douse the raging flames hardly 500km from the busy NH-32 that connects the coal belt town to Bokaro. Traffic had to be suspended for about an hour last night after local residents fled in panic and crowded on the highway. The fire broke out at quarry No. 15 of Godhar coal mine last night and was spreading fast to almost 2km from the Godhar railway station. Mine safety officials were working hard to ensure the flames did not spread any further as there were a few petrol pumps within a radius of a kilometre. Jharia, where an underground mine fire has been raging for three decades due to indiscriminate coal mining, is barely 10km away. And local residents, who claimed they were no strangers to the phenomenon of unrelenting mine fires, said the Godhar blaze was sparked by human error. They blamed the