20150213 India Fire at Rajasthan hotel kills 3 guests
India Feb 12 2015 “Other bldg.”
Dead : dead 1 to 4 Burnout : 0 or unknown Injured : injured 0 or unknown
Fire at Rajasthan hotel kills 3 guests
Updated: 2015-02-14-03:52
Police said while three guests died in the fire, other 25 guests at the hotel including five Japanese tourists were rescued.
Three guests were killed after fire engulfed a portion of a hotel in Alwar’s Neemrana area on Friday.
Officials identified the three as Rahul Doshi (30), Saurabh Chauhan (28) and Suhas Nath (30), who died of suffocation and burns after fire broke out on Cambay Sapphire’s sixth floor around 3am.
Doshi belonged to Udaipur, while Chauhan and Nath were from Faridabad and Kolkata. All of them were employees of a Gurgaon-based company.
Police said other 25 guests at the hotel, including five Japanese tourists, were rescued.
The Neemrana police station was informed about the fire at 3.22am. It is suspected the fire started from Doshi’s room — 1706. He was charred to death. The other two deceased occupied the next room — 1705. Both of them died of suffocation and burns.
Rohit Kumar, a guest staying on the same floor, said he was working till 2.30am on his laptop and then went to sleep. He suddenly felt suffocated half an hour later and was jolted out of his sleep.
“I came out of my room and saw smoke emanating from some rooms. I immediately realized that the fire had broken out. I used a chair to break some glass windows in the corridor, so that I could breath. When I felt a little better, I tried to rush downstairs,” said Kumar.
Police said three fire tenders were rushed to the spot within five minutes of being informed about the fire. But the fire had spread to several parts on the sixth floor following which more fire tenders were called in.
“The fire was on the sixth floor, so it took the fire department nearly six hours to contain it because there were no ladders which could reach so high,” said SP Alwar Vikas Kumar.
He said fire fighting arrangements were at the hotel, but they were not used probably because the employees did not know how to operate them.
Police were trying to ascertain whether firefighting mock drills were conducted at the hotel.
An FIR has been registered against the hotel administration for negligence. The cause of fire is yet to be ascertained.
Web Source: The times of India
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