If tomorrow there is a fire 0n the top floor of the residence of Mukesh Ambani's residence what will happen ?
Hey! Good Morning Mr. Builder, Architect, Fire and Safety inspector, owner of premises, civic authority. I am speaking to you.
Many wise men-over generations gone by- with great experience burnt midnight oil and deeply studied past cases to come up with this National Building Code. Also, with new developments, the code was amended to cover most of the possibilities of accidents that may be caused by power failure, blasts, blackouts, fires etc.
Yet, it would appear from the facts as I have outlined, that the pages need to be used to line bird cages, trash cans or even as toilet paper to save some money. Now the logic is if we can save money by not installing emergency lights, signages, fire extinguishers, emergency exits or carrying out fire drills or staff training in basic safety, so why not save a little more? At least that way we can say with a straight face that we are actually using the NBC book. Because obviously, the norms laid out are almost NEVER followed-just as in the Arpit Palace incident.
Think about it.
Indian express.
TS Genco forms panel to probe fire accident in Srisailam power plant
Rao said the Srisailam power plant coming to a halt would not affect the power availability in the State.
Published: 24th August 2020 09:07 AM | Last Updated: 24th August 2020 09:07 AM | A+A A
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Employees trying to douse the fire in the Srisailam Hydro Electric power plant.
HYDERABAD: The Telangana State Power Generation Corporation Limited (TS Genco) on Sunday constituted a five-member committee of senior officials, to inquire into the fire accident that occurred on Thursday night at the Srisailam Left Bank Hydro Electric Scheme (SLBHES), which claimed the lives of seven engineers and two private employees.
CMD D Prabhakar Rao
during the rescue operations
at the SLBHES mishap site
on Thursday
The committee has been tasked with furnishing a detailed report within 15 days, on the causes and circumstances that led to the fire accident, along with specific recommendations and measures to be taken to prevent such accidents in the future.
The committee consists of G Raghuma Reddy, C Srinivas Rao, and T Jagath Reddy serving as CMD, JMD and Director (Transmission) of Transco along with M Sachidanandam and P Ratnakar, serving as Director (Projects) and Chief Engineer (Generation) with TS Genco.
Speaking to media, D Prabhakar Rao, CMD of TS Transco & TS Genco said that the committee would look into the reasons behind why the system at the power station did not trip after the fire, despite an automatic system being in place for the purpose and even after the engineers, who perished in fire trying to manually trip it.
Regarding the incident, Rao said that soon after the fire was noticed, the operators tried to extinguish the fire but could not do it following which they informed the load dispatch. After this, the power lines outside the plant were isolated and tripped.
He also said that the fire started from sixth power generation unit and spread across the plant. At the same time, power supply lines also tripped, the plant got engulfed in darkness and smoke filled the entire plant resulting in the death of the trapped personnel.
Regarding some allegations that the plant had problems that were ignored, Rao said that since the past 30-40 days the plant had been functioning and each unit of 1,590MW capacity was generating 130-140MW and everyday around 20 million units of power was being generated. He also said that just around 15 days ago, he and another senior official had inspected the plant.
He added that the plant had some water that leaks into it as it was an underground station and pumps had been put in place to remove the accumulated water.
Rao said the Srisailam power plant coming to a halt would not affect the power availability in the State. He said at present the power demand was low in the State and due to good inflows in Nagarjuna Sagar power was being generated there.
THE DEVASTATING HOTEL FIRE IN KAROL BAGH THAT KILLED 17-WE TRULY NEVER LEARN
By this time, the Arpit hotel fire tragedy in the wee hours of Tuesday, 12th February has become old hat. Karol Bagh, in central Delhi, is popular with tourists and lined with hotels and markets. Every news agency has elaborated on it and there is nothing much left to be said. However, for the record, twenty-six fire engines were sent to the fatal spot after the fire broke out at Hotel Arpit Palace around 4 am. Most people in the hotel were sleeping at the time.
at least nine people were killed and three injured after a fire at a hotel in Delhi's Karol Bagh area early that morning. Some people jumped off the five-storey building to escape the blaze only to die from the fall.
The fire was brought under control around 7 am. Thirty-five people were rescued and those injured were taken to the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital. Most of the deaths took place due to suffocation, the police said. A child and a woman were among those killed, they added.
If one were to randomly pull out fire tragedy stories previous to this one from anywhere in the country- be it the ESIC hospital or the Kamala Mills or any other, there is one common thread. After reading the gory details, what follows is a familiar pattern of information such as:
Hotel or hospital or whatever, had no proper exigency paraphernalia in place.
In most cases it did not have fire clearance and even if it did, it was found that the license was issued despite the rules not being followed. At least in one instance, the licensing officer has been penalized.
The place had narrow passageways and did not have emergency exit and even if it did, the same was blocked, barred or locked and did not serve the purpose.
200 hutments gutted in Delhi’s Paschim Puri
New Delhi, February 13: Delhi’s fire woes seem to have compounded this February. Following the Hotel fire that claimed 17, A major fire broke out at a slum in Paschim Puri locality in the national capital during wee hours on Wednesday barely a day later. According to news agency ANI, nearly 200 hutments have been completely gutted in the massive blaze.
At least 25 fire tenders were rushed to the spot to douse the fire. The fire tenders were rushed as soon as the information of the incident was received by the Fire Brigade officials. A woman was injured in the blaze. She was shifted to the hospital. No casualties had been reported .
''We got a call around 1 AM that a fire had broken out in slums. We immediately sent 20-25 fire tenders to the spot. It took us two hours to control the fire, a woman was injured and has been shifted to a hospital. More than 200 huts were caught in the fire,'' AK Jaiswal, a Fire department official, told ANI.
The incident comes a day after 17 people were killed and several others injured in a massive fire at a hotel in Karol Bagh, Central Delhi. The fire swept through a four-floor hotel in central Delhi’s Karol Bagh in the early hours of Tuesday, killing at least 17 guests, including two people who jumped off the building in a desperate bid to save themselves.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was among those who condoled the loss of lives. “Deeply saddened by the loss of lives due to a fire at Karol Bagh in Delhi. I convey my condolences to the families of those who lost their lives,” he tweeted.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who was among the many politicians and officials who visited the spot, announced Rs 5 lakh compensation for the next of kin of those killed.
“It is a very tragic incident. It seems that there may have been some lapses. A magisterial probe has been ordered to investigate the cause of the incident.”
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