building fire

New Delhi, March 30 Six people were rescued after a fire broke out in a multi-story residential building in Mukherjee Nagar in northwest Delhi, the Delhi Fire Services said on Monday.The fire broke out on Sunday night behind the Batra Cinema in Rana Nagar, a Delhi Fire Services (DFS) official...

New Delhi, March 29 Four people, including a child, were injured after they jumped from the first floor of a residential building in northeast Delhi's Gokal Puri area to escape a fire that broke out in the early hours of Sunday.The incident was reported around 2:30 am from a house in F block...

New Delhi, March 29 Four people, including a toddler, were injured after they jumped from the first floor of a building in northeast Delhi's Gokal Puri area to escape a fire that broke out in the early hours of Sunday, officials said.Eight people were rescued from the six-storey building that...

Beijing, March 29 – At least three people were killed, and 23 others were injured, including nine who are reportedly in critical condition, after a fire broke out in a building near Qinxian North Street in Taiyuan, located in North China's Shanxi Province, local media reported on Sunday...

New Delhi, March 27 A fire that broke out in a four-story building in the Tri Nagar area of north Delhi on Friday morning left six people, including a three-year-old child, with burns, officials said.Police suspect a short circuit in the electric water motor caused the fire.The injured...

New Delhi, March 26 A fire broke out in a room of a hotel in the Paharganj area of central Delhi on Thursday, according to a Delhi Fire Services official.No one was injured in the incident, he said.The official stated that they received a call regarding the fire at a hotel in the Chuna Mandi...

Thane, March 25 A fire broke out at a warehouse storing plastic and air-conditioner scrap materials in the Thane district of Maharashtra, officials said on Wednesday.No one was injured in the incident, which occurred on Tuesday night, they said.The fire was reported at 9:01 pm at the...

Karachi, March 23 A fire has erupted again at the Gul Plaza shopping centre in Karachi, Pakistan, with rescue teams discovering a man in the basement of the damaged building.The shopping centre was largely destroyed after a major fire in January that claimed at least 80 lives.Fire official...

New Delhi, March 23 The initial report from the fire department states that "highly flammable" materials were stored in the basement of the building in Palam, where a recent fire incident occurred, Delhi Home Minister Ashish Sood said on Monday.Sood accused the AAP of playing "blame game" and...

Palghar, March 22 Nine people were rescued after a fire broke out in a 12-story residential building in Palghar district, Maharashtra, on Sunday morning, an official said.There were no reports of injuries in the blaze that erupted on the eighth floor of the building in Virar East around 11 am...

New Delhi, March 20 The Aam Aadmi Party's Delhi unit president, Saurabh Bharadwaj, accused the BJP government on Friday of allowing people to die during the recent Palam fire tragedy in order to hide its own failures in responding to the emergency.Speaking at a press conference, he said that...

New Delhi, March 20 The investigation into a fire in Palam, Delhi, which caused the death of nine family members, is focusing on the response time of fire officials, technical issues related to fire trucks, and the alleged storage of flammable materials in the affected building, official sources...

New Delhi, March 20 Investigation agencies have intensified their efforts to determine the cause of the recent devastating fire in the Palam area of southwest Delhi, with preliminary findings indicating that the blaze originated from the lower part of the building, an official said on Friday...

Gurugram, March 20 A major fire broke out at a five-story guesthouse in Sector 28 on Friday afternoon, causing panic and chaos.Police, firefighters, the Haryana State Disaster Response Force (HSDRF), and local residents rescued four people, including three women, who were trapped in the...

New Delhi, March 19 – Following a brief commotion at a condolence meeting, Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Virendra Sachdeva said on Thursday that since the fire broke out in the Palam area, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has been trying to politicize the incident by assaulting a BJP MLA...

New Delhi, March 19 A day after a devastating fire killed nine members of a family in southwest Delhi's Palam, investigators suspect that a short circuit in an electrical board near the building's entrance likely caused the fire, police said on Thursday.The police also said that asphyxiation...

New Delhi, March 19 A relative of the nine family members who died in a fire in a multi-story building in the Palam area here said on Thursday that many of them died due to suffocation, as there were no visible injuries on their bodies.Ramesh Soni, whose nephew owns a jewelry shop next to the...

New Delhi, March 19 – Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Convenor Arvind Kejriwal visited the family affected by the devastating fire in Delhi's Palam area on Thursday, and alleged that lapses by the fire department may have contributed to the loss of lives, while also accusing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)...

New Delhi, March 19 The Delhi government will take strict action against those found responsible for alleged lapses in firefighting operations in southwest Delhi's Palam, where a devastating fire claimed nine lives, official sources said on Thursday.An inquiry has been ordered to identify any...

New Delhi, March 19 A day after a devastating fire claimed nine lives in southwest Delhi's Palam, a grieving father returned to the charred remains of his home on Thursday, alleging that systemic negligence had taken away everything he held dear.Rajender Kashyap, who lost nine members of his...