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The enquiries [18] done by the Law commission of India, the Delhi Fire department, the Naresh Kumar committee, [19] the Dy. commissioner of Police and the CBI [20] found a number of fire code violations [21] [22] including the following: No functional public announcement system (no announcement was made when the fire broke out) [23]
On 13 May 2022, a fire began on the first floor of four-storey office and commercial building in the Mundka area of Delhi, India. It killed 27 people and injured 40 others, and at least 50 people were rescued. The fire is believed to have been started by a short circuit. [1] [2]
India’s capital choked on toxic fumes Tuesday, as a thick and pungent haze spread from a fire at a towering trash dump, the latest in a series of landfill blazes that authorities have struggled ...
National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) is a force of 16 battalions, organised on para-military lines, and manned by persons on deputation from the para-military forces of India: three Border Security Force, three Central Reserve Police Force, two Central Industrial Security Force, two Indo-Tibetan Border Police, two Sashastra Seema Bal and one of the Assam Rifles.
Oct. 4—The Delhi Fire Department responded to a garbage truck on fire on Peakes Brook Road in the town. Several calls came into the Emergency 911 center about a garbage truck on fire spewing ...
Sikh militants in New Delhi killed 12 Hindus celebrating a baby's birthday party. 13 other people were killed in Punjab. Security was increased in New Delhi following reports of possible school bus bomb attacks by Sikh militants. [40] [41] 3 July 1987 Gurnam Singh Uppal, a moderate Sikh leader and the president of the Punjab unit of Democratic ...
In May 2024, a fire in a neonatal clinic in New Delhi killed seven newborns, [7] while in 2011, a hospital fire in Kolkata claimed 93 lives. [8] According to a 2019 parliamentary report, India had only 3,377 fire stations, against the required 8,559, and a severely understaffed fire service with 55,000 personnel instead of the recommended 500,000.
The Delhi Police utilized 3D laser technology to recreate the scene of the hotel before the fire broke out in order to understand what led to the blaze and find violations by the hotel staff. [7] They reviewed certificates issued to more than 1,500 hotels in India's tourist hubs in an effort to limit the number of casualties. [5]