Three fire incidents were reported in the national Capital on Saturday. A minor fire was also reported in the new Parliament building in central Delhi on Saturday afternoon. According to Delhi Fire Services data, amid scorching temperatures and heatwave conditions, the national Capital has witnessed till May 19 over 2,000 fire-related incidents which has claimed the lives of 42 people and injured 117 others.
A fire broke out at a factory in north Delhi's Bawana area while fire was also reported at a shop in east Delhi's Pandav Nagar area on Saturday morning.
However, no casualties have been reported in the incident. Fire department said a minor fire broke out in the new Parliament building in central Delhi on Saturday afternoon. The safety net of the building caught fire, they said. Information regarding the blaze was received at 12.35 pm and five fire tenders were rushed to the spot, the fire department officials said.
It was a minor fire, and the fire staff present inside the Parliament complex doused it even before the fire tenders reached the spot, they said.
In another fire incident at a factory in north Delhi's Bawana area, the fire department received the call regarding the fire at 11.05 am following which seven to eight fire tenders were sent at the spot to douse the blaze, said a senior Delhi Fire Service (DFS) official.
A fire also broke out at a shop in east Delhi's Pandav Nagar area. The fire department received information about it at 11.05 am. “Seven fire tenders have been pressed into service. No casualty has been reported in either of the incidents so far,” said the senior DFS official. On Monday, a fire broke out in three temporary shelters for workers engaged in the Central Vista project near the Parliament House.
The fire department said the figure of 2,145 incidents is the highest in May so far as compared to the same period in the last three years.
In the entire month of May in 2021, the city witnessed 2,174 fire-related incidents, while 2,325 such incidents were reported in the same month in 2020.
In May 2019, 3,297 fire incidents were reported, the data showed.
Acording to the data, in May 2019, 18 deaths were reported, followed by 10 in May 2020, and 41 in May 2021.Fire department officials here said the major incidents in May this year included the massive blaze that engulfed a factory in outer Delhi's Mundka in which at least 27 people died and 16 were injured.
The bodies were charred to the extent that DNA profiling was required to identify these them, they said.This was followed by another incident in northeast Delhi's Mustafabad area on May 19 in which a 42-year-old man was killed and six others were injured.
Of the 2,145 fire-related calls, most were reported from either factories, slum clusters or commercial buildings, officials said.