The public works department has decided to conduct fire safety audit of all Covid hospitals, quarantine centres and safe homes where patients have been put up.  The decision was taken after a fi...

A huge fire that broke out engulfed a three-storeyed building, Sahu Hardware, located in Jaridih market under Gandhinagar police station under Bermo subdivision around 2am on Tuesday.  Fortunate...

Denying the existence of serious problems does not make them go away; it only aggravates them further. This lesson was learnt the hard way by Calcutta’s Metro Railway recently when one of its air-co...

Paradise has been lost in California, not to the biblical flood but to fire. The town of Paradise, home to around 27,000 people, lies charred after being singed by a devastating wildfire, reportedly t...

Déjà vu, when recurrent, is a symptom of grave illness. Nowhere is this more evident than in West Bengal. After a fire engulfed a private hospital in Calcutta killing about 90 people in 2011, anothe...

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Two fires within a span of 18 days have brought out a sharp contrast — arrest warrants have been issued against the owners and the chief executive of one building while no matching action has been i...

Portable fire extinguishers and hosepipes missing, a fire tender on standby was the only sign of fire safety at the Calcutta Medical College and Hospital a day after a fire broke out at the College St...

According to the official, the lack of sprinklers made the task of dousing the flames doubly difficult for the firefighting team. “We were at first unable to target the origin of the fire because sm...

The fire department on Sunday issued instructions to all fire stations to remain festival-ready.The department issued directives to all its fire stations in the state, including six in Patna — Lodip...