The DG has laid emphasis on fire safety audit of installations of hotels, lodgings and guest houses, all educational buildings above 12 metres or built up areas above 1000 square metres, cinema halls, multiplex, all clinical establishments above 12 metres or more than 3 floors.
Among several others, the question that even a layman of the village is asking is how Mangal, who had slept with his wife and children in the same room, could escape without even a minor burn injury.
As per visuals from the spot, thick fumes of black smoke could be seen billowing out of the three-storey building and the firemen used the fire truck ladder to reach the maximum possible height to spray water over the blaze.
The blaze erupted at 7 am on the ground plus two-storey structure located on S V Road in Vile Parle west, and no casualty has been reported so far, he said.
A short circuit in the electric metre ignited the fire which engulfed the vehicles in the parking of the residential complex before taking an awful turn, Vijay Nagar police station inspector Tehzeeb Qazi told PTI.
Sharif asked Shah to furnish a comprehensive report, including a copy of the FIR, the cause of the fire, and the loss of lives, properties and livestock.
Assistant Commissioner of Police (East) Ludhiana Surinder Singh said they were migrant labourers from Bihar and were sleeping when the incident occurred.
The traders raked up such loopholes before the newly-elected Mayor of Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Sulochana Das’ spot visit last night.
A fire broke out at the Keshari Mall near the Market Building area in Bhubaneswar on Friday night.
The fire spread quickly as the hostel roofs were made from highly inflammable thatch.
Hyderabad Police Commissioner C. V. Anand said the workers were asleep in rooms on the first while scrap material including plastic, newspapers and other scrap items were stored on the ground floor. Someone alerted the police after a gas cylinder exploded due to the fire.
The deceased couple’s severely injured younger son Srikant Behera and his wife Swapna Behera are still battling for life at the SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack.
The couple's two sons and a daughter-in-law have been shifted to SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack after their condition deteriorated.
As per reports, the mishap took place when they were inside the house. A fire broke out and engulfed the house leaving them critically injured.
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Luckily, the sarpanch and his family members evaded the attack as they had gone to attend a relative's function last night.
Deputy Commissioner of Police Sourabh Tripathi had said that primary information indicated that the fire started on the 15th floor and spread upward to the 19th floor, which was affected the most.
The MFB managed to rescue at least 23 injured persons from the inferno that raged in the top three floors, and the firemen continued to battle the blaze in the afternoon.
On being alerted, 13 fire engines and seven water jetties were rushed to the building to douse the fire, which was tagged as level-3 (major). At present, the firefighters covered the blaze from all sides, he said.
Doctors at the Bhatia Hospital said that of the 15 injured persons who were brought there, 12 have been admitted to the general ward. The condition of three others is critical and they are being treated in the intensive care unit (ICU), he added.
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Victims were found in stairways on every floor of the building, many in cardiac arrest.
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A massive fire broke out at a garment store in Biramitrapur area of Odisha’s Sundargarh district late night on Sunday (Dec 26).
A major fire had broken out at a house in Khaiparasi village under Dhenkanal’s Parjang Police Station Limits in which a father-son duo had sustained critical injuries.
Haldia Refinery is undertaking shutdown and maintenance of various major units and the fire broke out at around 3 pm at the motor spirit quality (MSQ) unit.
A major fire mishap was reported at a Gutkha manufacturing unit in Sambalpur. Around 25 employees were injured in the incident.
The fire broke out within a medical clinic, which provides psychosomatic and psychiatric treatments, on the fourth floor of a building in Osaka's Kitashinchi district
In a tragic incident, a Plus-3 girl student was burnt to death at her house in Bhaludunguri village under Bonai Police limits of Sundargarh district on Monday night (Dec 13). The deceased Sapneshwari Munda was reportedly a meritorious student of a college at Lahunipada. As per reports, late on Monday night, the girl was heading into her room holding a kerosene lamp.
A huge fire broke out late last night at a market nearby Chandaneswar Temple in Odisha’s Balasore district.
As many as 18 houses were gutted in fire which broke out at Hampsapara Bru camp in Tripura on Sunday.
These visuals show a massive fire which broke out at a furniture godown at Pisoli in Pune, Maharashtra in the wee hours of November 9.
"The fire broke out at around 9 pm and 8 to 10 fire tenders were rushed to the spot to douse the flames."
A massive fire broke out in the seized vehicle and goods compound of Kheda Police Station in Gujarat. More than 25 vehicles including motorcycles, auto rickshaws and cars were gutted in the fire. After hours of struggle, the Fire Brigade personnel managed to bring the fire under control. The reason behind the fire is yet to be ascertained.
A probe has begun under a forensic team to determine the cause of the fire, which took almost two hours to bring under control after seven fire tenders were deployed, a Kheda town police station official said.
A huge fire broke out at a paper mill in Gujurat’s Valsad area on Thursday night. Fire brigades were immediately pressed into service to douse the flames.
A massive fire broke out at a Timber factory in Gujarat’s Vadodara on Monday. Property worth lakhs of rupees was gutted in the mishap. Watch this video.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin had announced a solatium of Rs 5 lakh to those who died in the fire mishap and an amount of Rs 1 lakh for all the injured .
A grocery shop was allegedly converted into a firecracker shop ahead of Diwali and was doing brisk business when the incident occurred.
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