In what is alleged to be an act of arson, a fire broke out in two godowns situated on the West Phirni road in Mundka, West Delhi on Wednesday morning around 4 am. The incident takes place three days after a major fire broke out in the same area on Sunday. The incident took place in the Mahalakshmi Plastics godown and Yog Plastics godown that were situated next to each other. Both the godowns stored plastic scrap. According to the godown owners, goods worth crores were gutted in the fire that raged for about three hours. It took 25 fire tenders, and around 125 fire fighters to douse the fire. However no casualties were reported.
The guard Makhan Lal, who was on duty at the godown Mahalakshmi Plastics said, “I saw four or five people in a car outside the godown. They threw a bottle which caught fire as it landed. I didn’t try to chase them as I got scared and thought they might be carrying weapons”. The police have neither confirmed nor denied this theory although a senior Police official said he suspected the fire to be the work of miscreants.
However, speaking on condition of anonymity, the proprietor of one of the neighboring godowns said that the fire on was started in order to drive the scrap dealers out of Mundka.
Ever since the Delhi Metro had reached this formerly isolated part of Delhi, property prices had risen. Landowners who would once rent out their land to the scrap dealers now were looking at better deals from builders. The proprietor said that this was also the reason that the previous fire had been started.
Hari, a labourer who works at Yog Plastics said “I was sleeping inside the godown when the fire broke out. I rushed out and called other labourers. We tried to put out the fire but were unable to do so as the fire was too strong and we did not have any way of knowing how to put it out”
Firemen who arrived at the scene said that they used specialised chemicals and brought the fire under control by 7.35 am. However even in the late afternoon they were putting out small fires that were breaking out from under the layer of melted and hardened plastic.
On Sunday, a massive fire ranging for about 15 hours had broken out in Mundka Industrial Area gutting an entire plastic scrap market and causing huge losses. In that incident Delhi Fire Chief, R C Sharma had said that he suspected the fire was a work of sabotage.
(Although this does not seem to be a particularly special story, I think this would be a good starting point to look into the alternate impact of the Delhi Metro)
The guard Makhan Lal, who was on duty at the godown Mahalakshmi Plastics said, “I saw four or five people in a car outside the godown. They threw a bottle which caught fire as it landed. I didn’t try to chase them as I got scared and thought they might be carrying weapons”. The police have neither confirmed nor denied this theory although a senior Police official said he suspected the fire to be the work of miscreants.
However, speaking on condition of anonymity, the proprietor of one of the neighboring godowns said that the fire on was started in order to drive the scrap dealers out of Mundka.
Ever since the Delhi Metro had reached this formerly isolated part of Delhi, property prices had risen. Landowners who would once rent out their land to the scrap dealers now were looking at better deals from builders. The proprietor said that this was also the reason that the previous fire had been started.
Hari, a labourer who works at Yog Plastics said “I was sleeping inside the godown when the fire broke out. I rushed out and called other labourers. We tried to put out the fire but were unable to do so as the fire was too strong and we did not have any way of knowing how to put it out”
Firemen who arrived at the scene said that they used specialised chemicals and brought the fire under control by 7.35 am. However even in the late afternoon they were putting out small fires that were breaking out from under the layer of melted and hardened plastic.
On Sunday, a massive fire ranging for about 15 hours had broken out in Mundka Industrial Area gutting an entire plastic scrap market and causing huge losses. In that incident Delhi Fire Chief, R C Sharma had said that he suspected the fire was a work of sabotage.
(Although this does not seem to be a particularly special story, I think this would be a good starting point to look into the alternate impact of the Delhi Metro)
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