fire services

New Delhi, April 11 A 26-year-old man, who was trapped under a fallen tree in Uttam Nagar, West Delhi, was rescued on Friday afternoon, according to officials from the Delhi Fire Services (DFS)."A call was received at 4:36 pm regarding the incident at the A-Block cremation ground near a...

April 11, New Delhi: Following the summons from the ED, another Trinamool leader, Sujit Bose, the Minister of Fire Services, has been admitted to the hospital.The ED had summoned Sujit Bose in connection with the alleged corruption scandal involving the Municipal Corporation. Despite repeated...

New Delhi, March 31 A five-year-old and nine others were rescued after a major fire broke out on the first floor of a residential building in New Friends Colony area of southeast Delhi on Tuesday, an official of the Delhi Fire Services said.A call regarding the fire was received at 5:14 pm...

New Delhi, March 25 A fire broke out at a warehouse tent in the Chhatarpur area of south Delhi on Wednesday morning, an official said.The fire quickly spread due to highly flammable materials stored inside the warehouse, including fabric and event equipment, but no casualties have been...

New Delhi, March 23 A fire broke out in the kitchen of a cafe in Connaught Place on Janpath on Monday afternoon, according to a Delhi Fire Services official. No injuries were reported.The official said they received a call regarding a fire at the Hard Rock Cafe at 12:31 pm."We immediately...

Malkangiri (Odisha), March 21 As many as 37 passengers, including Odisha's Congress MLA Mangu Khila, had a narrow escape when the bus in which they were travelling from Bhubaneswar to Nabarangpur caught fire after a rear tyre burst early on Saturday, police said.The incident took place near...

Bhubaneswar, March 20 A fire broke out at a market complex in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, on Friday morning, officials said.The blaze was first noticed by a trader, who detected smoke inside his shop in the market near CRP Square around 10 am, they said.Firefighters broke open windows on the first...

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 18 The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) strongly criticized the BJP-led Delhi government over the Wednesday fire in Palam that killed nine people, with former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal expressing his concern at the "increasing number" of such incidents.Kejriwal described the...

Cuttack (Odisha), March 16 In the quiet hours of the early morning, when exhausted hospital staff were sleeping on the floors and benches after a long night of care, a fire broke out in the trauma care ICU of SCB Medical College and Hospital, and tragically, it turned into a scene of loss and...

New Delhi, March 11 A fire broke out at a warehouse in southwest Delhi's Najafgarh on Wednesday evening, prompting authorities to dispatch eight fire engines to the scene, a Delhi Fire Services official said.The fire was reported at 5:49 pm from the warehouse located near a government...

New Delhi, March 6 Two cars and a motorcycle were set on fire in southwest Delhi's Uttam Nagar on Friday, following the death of a 26-year-old man in a clash during Holi celebrations, police sources said.The Delhi Fire Services (DFS) said it received a call at 2:02 pm regarding a fire...

New Delhi, March 5 Just two weeks before Eid, when many families in a slum settlement in northwest Delhi's Rithala had begun buying new clothes and making preparations for the festival, a devastating fire early Thursday reduced their homes and belongings to ashes, leaving dozens of migrant...

New Delhi, March 5 A 17-year-old girl was killed and over 100 shanties were gutted after a major fire broke out in Delhi's Rithala area in the early hours of Thursday.The blaze left dozens of migrant families homeless as it swept through the densely packed settlement. The Delhi Fire Services...

New Delhi, March 5 An electric bus belonging to the Delhi Transport Corporation caught fire near a hospital on the Mehrauli-Badarpur road in south Delhi on Thursday afternoon, officials of the Delhi Fire Services said.All passengers were safely evacuated in time, with no injuries reported...

New Delhi, March 5 A fire broke out at a cargo warehouse in Delhi’s Rangpuri area near the airport on Thursday, an official of the Delhi Fire Services said.No casualties were reported in the incident, he said, adding that a call regarding the blaze was received around 10.10 am, following which...

Bhubaneswar, March 3 – The Odisha Police have made extensive security arrangements in view of the Holi celebrations across the twin cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack, informed Suresh Dev Datta Singh, Commissioner of Police, on Tuesday.Speaking to the media, Singh said that Holi is celebrated...

Amaravati, February 26 – A court in Andhra Pradesh issued an arrest warrant on Thursday against M. Sunil Kumar Naik, an IPS officer serving in Bihar, in connection with the alleged custodial torture of former Member of Parliament K. Raghu Ramakrishna Raju, who is now the Deputy Speaker of the...

New Delhi, February 25 Three people were safely rescued after they were trapped inside a lift at an apartment complex in southwest Delhi, a fire services official said on Wednesday.According to the Delhi Fire Services, the incident, which took place at Akshardham Apartments in Dwarka...

New Delhi, February 24 A 58-year-old security guard at a municipal primary school was found charred to death inside the school's guard room in Ranhola area of outer Delhi on Tuesday, police said.The deceased, identified as Naresh Kumar, a resident of Rohtak in Haryana, was employed by the...