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3 LIVES LOST IN HORRIFIC DELHI FIRE ACCIDENT

In a horrific fire accident in a residential society in Dwarka’s Sector-13 in Delhi, Three members of a family, including two children, died after jumping off the balcony of a 10th-floor duplex flat to escape a massive fire that had broken out on Tuesday, June 10th in the morning. The incident raises familiar questions on the lack of proper safe exit measures in high rises that end up killing people needlessly. 

“The children, a boy and a girl, both aged 10, were declared dead on arrival at Akash Hospital. The man, Yash Yadav (40), was declared dead at Indira Gandhi Hospital, said the police. He was the girl’s father and the boy’s uncle.

According to initial reports, the fire, which broke out at 9.58 am, engulfed the 9th and 10th floors of the duplex flat, where Yash and his family lived, at the Shabad Co-operative Group Housing Society.” Indian Express reports.

“My cousins and I had barely woken up. We were beginning to get ready… some of my younger cousins were still asleep,” said Yadav’s 17-year-old nephew. Before they could grasp what was happening, the house was filled with black smoke. The family scattered to either escape or locate the origin of the fire. This raises the question where were the emergency lights, signs that enable vision in smoke and dark conditions?