Tag: Fire Mishap

Cuttack: A day after a fire broke out at the BSNL office in Cuttack, mobile, internet and banking services were disrupted in several districts of Odisha. As per reports, while BSNL subscribers are unable to make calls and get internet access on their mobile phones, work has been severely affected in various government offices including […]

Sonepur: In a tragic incident, a nine-year-old minor boy was charred to death after house caught fire at Sankara village in the district in the wee hours of Sunday. According…

Chaos unfolded at the Vijay Vallabh COVID care hospital in Maharashtra's Virar after a major fire broke out in the hospital in the wee hours of Friday. At least 14 Covid patients including 6 women who were in the ICU during the incident perished in the flames. While some 90 patients were admitted to the hospital at the time of the incident, their friends and family members kept waiting outside the hospital worried about their health update. Distressing visuals of people mourning the loss of their loved ones have come to the fore.

Bhawanipatna: Playing near a haystack turned fatal for three minor girls, including twin sisters, at Bijmara village under Koksara Police limits of the district on Saturday. The minor girls, all bellow five years, were reportedly rushed to Koksara Community Health Centre after they sustained around 90 per cent burn injuries when the haystack where they […]

Bolangir: Over 200 quintals of paddy worth lakhs of rupees reduced to ashes after a major fire broke out in a farmyard at Jogisarada village under Loisingha block of Bolangir district Saturday night. Five farmers had reportedly stocked their paddy at the farmyard of Sadanand Pradhan of the village. As per reports, the fire broke […]

Nabarangpur/Sundergarh: At least four persons including three minor girls lost their lives in two separate fire mishaps in Odisha on Sunday. In Sundergarh, a woman and her daughter were charred to death after a fire broke out in their house at Bhasma village. Neighbours alerted the fire brigade after noticing smoke billowing out of the […]

New Delhi: A major tragedy was averted after 40 people were rescued from a building in East Delhi when a fire broke out in the early hours of Thursday, an official said. Plastic waste materials were stored on the ground floor of the four-storey building in Krishna Nagar area, while people lived on the upper […]

Mumbai: Two bodies have been recovered from a garment godown, which was gutted in a fire in the western suburb of Saki Naka on Friday evening, police said on Saturday. Aarti Lalji Jaiswal (25) and Piyush Dheeraj Katadiya (42) were found dead in the garment unit in the early hours of Saturday, deputy commissioner of […]

New Delhi: Thirteen firefighters were among the 14 people injured when a battery factory collapsed in northwest Delhi’s Peera Garhi following an explosion due to a fire that broke out early on Thursday morning, officials said. A fire brigade personnel still remained trapped under the debris of the building in Udyog Nagar area, an official […]

Bhubaneswar: More than 20 fruit shops gutted after a fire broke out at a fruit vending zone near Kalpana square in the capital city late last night. As per reports, property worth lakhs of rupees were gutted and a few people were also injured in the blaze before it was doused by firemen after much […]

Berhampur: In a tragic incident, four children, including a girl, succumbed to the critical burn injuries sustained in a fire mishap at Khairachata village of Polasara in Ganjam district on Sunday. The deceased have been identified as Sairam, Dipak, Itishree and Alok. According to reports, all the four kids were playing near a heap of […]

Kendrapara: At least five members of a family including a 20-day-old infant sustained critical burn injuries in a fire mishap at Girang village under Marshaghai police limits in Kendrapara district last night. Though the exact reason behind what triggered the fire is still unknown, it suspected that someone intentionally set the house on fire as […]

Ahmedabad: Eight patients in the ICU ward of a private COVID-19 designated hospital died after a fire broke out there on Thursday, a fire official said. The victims include five men and three women, who were being treated at the ICU ward of the COVID-19 designated Shrey Hospital in Navrangpura area of Ahmedabad, the official […]

Vijayawada: At least ten persons were killed on Sunday in a fire that broke out at a hotel turned Covid-19 care centre here, officials said. Fire tenders rushed to the spot managed to bring the blaze under control. The fire broke out in the ground and first floors of the building. Inmates of the Covid-19 […]

Dhenkanal: Property worth lakhs were reduced to ashes after a major fire broke out at Mangalpur village under Sadar block here on Saturday. While the exact reason behind the fire is yet to ascertained, sources said as many as five houses have been gutted in the mishap. Informed about the incident, fire tenders rushed to […]