Overview
- A fire erupted late on Friday night and spread quickly through the Shastri Park furniture market because shops stored highly flammable wood, plywood and adhesives in narrow lanes.
- Delhi Fire Service said the control room logged the call at 11:57 pm and the incident was upgraded to a medium/major fire as roughly 25–30 fire tenders were deployed and cooling operations continued into the morning.
- Traders and residents said only a few tenders arrived in the early stages and that dispute over response time prompted some locals to pelt stones at fire tenders around 12:50 am, forcing police to secure the scene.
- No civilian deaths were reported but one Delhi Fire Service officer was injured when a tin shed collapsed, and traders reported heavy losses ahead of Eid with estimates varying from lakhs to reports of hundreds of shops gutted.
- Delhi Police have registered a criminal case under section 326(g) and FSL teams have examined the site as investigators work to confirm the fire’s cause, assess the full scale of damage and determine relief or compensation steps.