20160718 India Elderly man averts major fire accident
India Jul 17 2016 “Houses”
Dead : dead 0 or unknown Burnout : 1 to 29 Injured : injured 1 to 9
Elderly man averts major fire accident
Updated: 2016-07-18-07:25
A major incident was averted after an elderly man displayed the courage and brought a gas cylinder out of a burning house in Gauri Nagar here late on Saturday.
Though the man received severe burns in the process but prevented an major accident which could have claimed many lives. The incident took place in Gauri Nagar under Heera Nagar police station late evening on Saturday when the 60-year-old man, identified as Rajkumar Gupta, reached home.
“There was no one at the house. Everyone had gone to run some errands. I reached inside, opened the lock and switched on the light following which there was a sudden blast. The entire house caught fire,” said Gupta while speaking to media persons here on Sunday.
Gupta suffered severe burns on his left hand during the incident and he was rushed to the hospital by the locals and neighbours present in the locality.
Web Source: THE TIMES OF INDIA
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