As firefighting operations are underway to douse the fire that broke out in a cloth factory in the Bakkarwala area of Outer Delhi on Sunday, Deputy Chief Fire Officer M K Chattopadhyay said that the fire spread due to explosion in LPG cylinder and it has been brought under control.
A Fire broke in Times Tower building in Mumbai's Lower Parel West on Friday at 6.47 a.m. According to the officials, no casualties have been reported yet. Fire tenders rushed to the spot and firefighting operations are underway.
"This is a big fire, we got the information around 5:35 pm...Around 26-27 fire tenders are at the spot, and firefighting operations are underway. There are no casualties...," Manesar Fire Station Officer Rameshwar Singh said.
Thick smoke from an intense forest fire engulfed Srinagar in Uttarakhand's Pauri Garhwal district, causing significant delays in aerial firefighting operations by the Indian Air Force (IAF).
The firefighting operations continued till Tuesday evening after a massive fire broke out at a firecracker factory in Madhya Pradesh's Harda district in the morning leaving eleven dead and around 150 others sustained injuries.
Firefighting operations continued on Wednesday afternoon after the blaze broke out at around 11:30 am at the factory on Magardha Road in Bairagarh village.
Officials said that a medical camp was also organised at Brahmapuram to check up on the health of fire and rescue officials and other persons who are at the spot.