00:01Breaking news right at the top and this is in fact unfortunate what we are learning about it's a massive
00:07fire that broke out at a mobile battery shop in the Gaffar market in Karolbagh in the national capital.
00:15Now it is the shop is in Puri Plaza 13 block Chainwali Gali just to be a little more specific
00:21of the area the fire what we are learning after seven hours of the fire team fighting teams having been
00:29struggling to bring the flames in control has now been doused and is under control now but the cooling operations
00:37are still continuing according to the Delhi police prima facie the fire seems to have originated from a mobile battery
00:43shop on the ground floor.
00:45is what we are learning the reason however could be overcharging of the batteries due to which they caught fire
00:49the exact source of the fire however is yet to be asserted after cooling operations end a total of 22
00:57fire service units had been deployed to control the place with additional water bowser and lighting equipment having also been
01:03sent to the scene because remember the fire erupted somewhere around night time which is why it's even more difficult
01:11to maneuver through these very narrow lanes that Gaffar market
01:15it has and the shops as my colleague was giving us an idea earlier when we were bringing to you
01:20this very story it's a little difficult to reach those very shops with all of the equipment because trucks will
01:29find it difficult fire tending trucks will find it difficult to move all the way in they will have to
01:34stand at a distance because the lanes do not facilitate or do not have so much space in the first
01:40scene itself
01:42to let the trucks have to let the trucks reach the very side of fire which is why they called
01:47in additional bowser they had 22 teams being sent into the very location and then finally the shops being very
01:56close to each other several of those shops in fact the fire had spread out too and now it's been
02:00brought under control
02:01Anshul Singh joining me back on the broadcast Anshul what are you learning exactly of the fire situation we heard
02:09that the flames have been brought under control but the cooling operations still continue what is it that you know
02:19well yes currently we are at the spot where the entire incident has happened if I could just come here
02:23and show you in the visuals this is the location where the said incident has happened and you can see
02:28how difficult is it that how difficult is it for the firefighters to actually go ahead and carry out this
02:32entire operation and probably this is the reason why it took such a long time for the firefighters to actually
02:40get the fire under control as well
02:42if I could just show you in the visuals above the smoke is still emitting from the shocks that are
02:50on the upper upper surfaces remember the fire had started from the ground flow
02:54Prime FSI it actually seems like that the fire started due to a battery shock that was on the ground
03:02floor of the building and from there suddenly the fire started to increase and go towards the upper reaches of
03:11the building and has reached till the 4th floor at least but you can see this entire location how almost
03:16impossible it is for the firefighters to go ahead and take the entire situation under their control
03:22So we will try and walk ahead as well and try to get a sense as to what are the
03:27operations that are still being undertaken but over here the situation and the location at which this incident has happened
03:36actually tells an entire story in itself that how it has almost been impossible for the firefighters to get the
03:46fire
03:47What are the firefighters here?
03:49What do you see here?
03:503-3
03:51I have only 3.3
03:54So there happened so a few hours?
03:59A few hours of fire on the fire?
03:591-1 hours of fire on the fire, 2 hours of fire on the fire and then the fire on
04:02the fire again
04:02Then it turned back like it
04:04It turned back like it turned back to you
04:06I don't know
04:07What was the fire on?
04:08Where was the fire on the fire?
04:09There was no one thing in the fire
04:11I was just a 10 to 11 from my phone
04:11In the mobile battery shop
04:14so yes as you heard that these are people who are locals in this entire area they say that
04:19initially the fire was doused around 2 a.m but again there was another source of fire that had
04:24started due to which the fire went on now these visuals tell a story in itself that how it is
04:31almost impossible for the firefighters to carry out any sort of an operation over here because
04:37this is absolutely in a by lane that is not more than 10 to 11 feet in width and hence
04:46no machinery
04:46could get close and as I showed you that these are the pipes that have been used to actually
04:54which have been pulled from the fire tenders and have been taken to the spot where the fire
04:58was originating because at that location it is impossible for any anything any machinery to
05:05reach so yes a very very uphill task and that is the reason why it took such a long time
05:09for the
05:10fire department to get the fire under control even as we are speaking the cooling operations are still
05:15underway the fire has been doused but the smoke is still is still coming out from the top floors of
05:22the of the building so at least it was a four floor building that has that has a that was
05:27entirely
05:28engulfed in fire and the nearby buildings at least three buildings in the nearby vicinity as well
05:33has also been affected by the fire in fact in fact if you could see that there is still thick
05:41smoke
05:41black smoke that is coming out from the from the roof and the top floor of this of this building
05:48as
05:48well so definitely the situation is not good at all thankfully it was it was the night time and hence
05:56no one and hence there were no people who were present inside the shop or in this entire market
06:01and that is one of the reasons why there has been no loss to a life per se at this
06:07point in time
06:08however there are there is damage to property that has been reported but no injuries or no casualties
06:13that have been reported till now absolutely anshul and and that's one that's one uh perhaps one could
06:20say fortunate uh situation if we speak of the fact that there is no casualty or uh even injuries for
06:29that
06:29matter that's been reported from this particular fire incident because it was night time there were
06:34no sure there were no people at the very shop uh however what exactly led to the fire still remains
06:41to be a question that has uh to be probed by the authorities and that will be right now cooling
06:47operations are underway as my colleague untrue men
