Crematorium gets 2 gas furnaces Updated: Updated: Shanthikavadam facility also has two electric furnaces and two wood-based ones Share Article Shanthikavadam facility also has two electric furnaces and two wood-based ones The city Corporation has readied two gas furnaces at the Shanthikavadam electric crematorium located near Thycaud at a time when there is an increase in load at the crematorium due to COVID-19-related deaths. The work on the two gas furnaces at Shanthikavadam began last year after the COVID-19 outbreak, when the Corporation realised that there is a strain on the existing facilities. Tested “We carried out the testing of the gas furnaces yesterday. It is now being used for cremating COVID-19 patients,” said a health official of the Corporation.