The lawsuit filed by the family said that the Seattle Fire Department medics reached the residence within six minutes after the first call but they waited to enter because Yurek was wrongly included on a "so-called blacklist" of people who had a history of hostility toward first responders.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Friday informed that instructions have been issued to the officials for the investigation into the Goregaon fire incident resulting in deaths of eight people.
On Friday, Mumbai witnessed a horrific fire incident. At least eight people were killed, while 50 others were injured after a massive fire broke out at a building in Goregaon.
The Special Task Force of Kolkata Police, in a joint operation with its counterparts in Bihar, on Thursday unearthed an illegal improvised active firearms (Pistol) manufacturing unit operating in Gaya.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde expressed grief over the loss of lives in the fire at a building in Goregaon, Mumbai saying that the government will provide monetary help of Rs 5 lakhs to their families.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday expressed grief over the loss of lives in the fire at a building in Goregaon, Mumbai and announced an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh each for the next of kin of the deceased and Rs 50 thousand for people who sustained injuries.
According to Chief Fire Officer Kanpur, Deepak Sharma, "The fire incident took place in a warehouse that was located in the Sanjay Nagar area, under Kidwai Nagar police station limits of the city."
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal to visit the trauma care hospital to meet injured people in the Goregaon fire at 10.30 am.
Four people died on the spot after an explosion occurred in the Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu during the manufacturing of country-made explosives (firecrackers), police said on Wednesday.