Overview
- Firefighters rescued ten people, including a five-year-old, from a residential building in Taimoor Nagar in southeast Delhi.
- Delhi Fire Services said it sent six fire engines with water tankers, water bowsers and a turntable ladder to the scene.
- The first crew reached within minutes, knocked down the flames quickly and declared the fire out soon after.
- Officials said the blaze started in a first-floor room and smoke trapped residents on that level as a family escaped over a terrace with help from firefighters.
- Police said they are investigating the incident, and the fire service reported a separate recent rescue of six people from a Mukherjee Nagar building fire.