Dongri blaze: MFB says building’s internal fire fighting system was inoperative

On Wednesday afternoon, 4 people, including a pistillate firefighter, were injured aft an LPG cylinder detonation wrong a level connected the fifteenth level triggered a level-three occurrence astatine the 22-storey gathering successful Dongri’s Nishanpada road.

Following the incident, section residents alleged that the flat, wherever the occurrence broke out, had been constructed illegally successful an area, which was primitively designated to beryllium a “refuge area”.

Congress MLA from Mumbadevi Amin Patel had besides instructed the Chief Fire Officer to behaviour a thorough probe into the unauthorised constructions wrong the building.

Speaking to The Indian Express, an MFB authoritative said, “While 1 squad of MFB gauged and examined the grade of fire, different squad examined the refuge country and inspected different aspects specified arsenic the interior occurrence warring strategy of the building. We recovered that the occurrence warring strategy was not operational.”

“Under the proviso of the occurrence Act, we person issued a announcement to the gathering developer asking them to taxable the details of the original, approves gathering plan, OCs arsenic good arsenic different documents pertaining to the renewal of occurrence NOCs,” helium added.

Officials maintained that if the developers failed to furnish documentation wrong stipulated clip frame, different announcement volition beryllium issued to them.