Fire Accident

Maharashtra hospital fire: Some COVID-19 patients died due to smoke, say police

A short circuit was suspected to be the cause of the blaze, though it was yet to be confirmed, chief fire officer of the city civic body Shankar Misal said.

Maharashtra: 10 COVID-19 patients die in hospital fire in Ahmednagar; Uddhav Thackeray orders probe

The incident happened around 11 am in the hospital's COVID-19 ward, in which 17 patients had been admitted

Watch: Men rescue old couple from burning car in East County San Diego; netizens call them heroes

The video captured the moments where people who were passing by rushed, helped and rescued a couple from a burning car

Fire at Delhi's CGO complex brought under control; CISF inspector who fainted at the site dies of asphyxiation

A fire broke out on the 5th floor of the Pandit Deendayal Antyodaya Bhawan at the CGO Complex in Delhi's Pragati Vihar near Lodhi Road around 8.30 am on Wednesday. According to ANI, 24 fire tenders were rushed to the spot.

21 killed, 71 injured in fire near Mexico City caused by fuel theft; govt deploys 3,200 marines to guard pipelines, refineries

A massive fireball that engulfed people fed by fuel spilling from a pipeline ruptured by thieves in central Mexico killed 21 people and badly injured 71 others in what was a chronicle of a tragedy foretold.

Four killed, one injured in Delhi after fire breaks out at factory in Karol Bagh; blaze brought under control

According to officials, the victims were brought out of the factory in Delhi's Karol Bagh. They died before reaching the hospital.

Gas explosion at Bolivia's Oruro Carnival kills six, injures 28; rescue efforts on

Police in Bolivia say six people were killed and dozens injured when a street vendor's gas canister exploded near the route of the Carnival in the city of Orura.

Guwahati godown catches fire leaving three persons injured in Aathgaon

A major fire broke out in a plastic goods godown at Aathgaon on Wednesday engulfing several nearby commercial enterprises and residential houses besides injuring a woman and two firefighters.

PM condoles death of Andhra's bus-tragedy victims

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today expressed sorrow at the death of 45 people in a fire accident in a bus in Andhra Pradesh.