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Basement parking fire guts luxury car near Marine Drive
A luxury car parked in the basement of an apartment near Marine Drive walkway was fully gutted in a fire on Sunday evening :).
The Story in Brief
A luxury car parked in the basement of an apartment near Marine Drive walkway was fully gutted in a fire on Sunday evening :).
Another car suffered partial damage. Four fire tenders from Club Road and Gandhinagar stations battled the blaze for over an hour. Officials suspect a short circuit. Inadequate ventilation forced crews to use blowers to clear smoke, preventing the fire from spreading to 30 other parked cars.
The Indian Opinion
The fire was contained, sure, but the smoke that choked the basement should worry every apartment dweller. Inadequate ventilation is not a surprise discovered during firefighting; it is a building default. The city's older buildings routinely flout fire norms, yet residents notice only when tenders arrive. Watch how the housing society responds. If it merely repairs the car and forgets the exhaust ducts and smoke detectors, the next fire may not be so kind.
Source: thehindu.com
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