Overview
- Delhi Fire Service crews reached a Vijay Vihar building after a 7:06 a.m. call on Tuesday and used ladders to evacuate 23 people while dousing the blaze by about 8:00 a.m.
- Officials say the fire started in the ground-floor electricity meter or box and produced loud bursting sounds as flames spread to 18 meters and six parked two-wheelers.
- Reports differ on injuries from the Rohini incident with some outlets saying none and others reporting one or two people taken to hospital; separate incidents left one person critically burned after a PNG pipeline blast in Subhash Nagar.
- Firefighters also tackled a bank building blaze in Kirti Nagar on the evening of May 26 and a factory fire in Udyog Nagar on May 27 in operations that rescued additional people and stretched DFS resources.
- The cluster of recent Delhi fires, including the May 3 Vivek Vihar and May 22–23 Shastri Park blazes, highlights recurring meter-room and vehicle-charging risks and could prompt tighter rules on ground-floor meter placement and two-wheeler charging practices.