20210416 Rajkot: 80% flat gutted in fire; woman, her two children rescued
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Rajkot: 80% flat gutted in fire; woman, her two children rescued
Updated: 2021-04-16
RAJKOT: Two children including an infant and their mother were rescued by Rajkot fire brigade from a top floor of a four-storey apartment on Thursday evening. 80 per cent of the flat was gutted in fire, the woman locked herself with her two children in a bathroom from where the fire brigade rescued them.
The fire brigade on Thursday evening got a call that there was a fire in a small flat of Komal apartment in the Bedinaka Tower area and a woman named Dhara and her two children – a baby girl of eight months and a seven-year-old boy Harshil – were trapped.
Illesh Kher, chief fire officer of fire and emergency service Rajkot, said, “When we reached the spot we came to know that a woman and two children were trapped inside the flat. The road was narrow and only mini fighters could enter there.”
According to the fire department, smoke was billowing from the apartment and most of the household chattels gutted in the fire. “They were suffocating because of smoke but they locked themselves out of fear. My team and I rescued them and they were shifted to civil hospital. The condition of the trio is stable.” Kher added.
Web Source: The Times of India