<p>Police said a cluster of around 125 huts was gutted in the fire that broke out in a slum located at Mata Sundari Colony near Ranjit Singh flyover. No one was injured. It took around three hours for 27 fire tenders to douse the blaze.<br /><br />“We received a call about the incident at 2:40 am. Two fire tenders reached the spot in next seven minutes but the inferno started spreading rapidly,” Chief Fire Officer A K Sharma told Deccan Herald. Twenty-five more engines were deployed in no time and the fire was brought under control after a three-hour battle.<br /><br />Houses of an estimated 300 people— rickshaw-pullers, vendors, hawkers, barbers and labourers—were destroyed, Sharma said.<br /><br />“We were sleeping and all of a sudden we heard a loud noise. When I came out to check, I saw fire all around. All my belongings were lying in my small hut and the fire has destroyed everything,” a victim said. Another resident of the colony said: “We first saw a small paper scrap warehouse between the slum clusters in flames. Before I could do anything, the blaze spread to our hut. I rushed in to rescue my children.”<br /><br />Later in the day, the Delhi government officials built temporary shelters and arranged food for the slum dwellers.<br /><br />Police said no one was injured in the incident. The exact cause of the fire is not known. <br /></p>
<p>Police said a cluster of around 125 huts was gutted in the fire that broke out in a slum located at Mata Sundari Colony near Ranjit Singh flyover. No one was injured. It took around three hours for 27 fire tenders to douse the blaze.<br /><br />“We received a call about the incident at 2:40 am. Two fire tenders reached the spot in next seven minutes but the inferno started spreading rapidly,” Chief Fire Officer A K Sharma told Deccan Herald. Twenty-five more engines were deployed in no time and the fire was brought under control after a three-hour battle.<br /><br />Houses of an estimated 300 people— rickshaw-pullers, vendors, hawkers, barbers and labourers—were destroyed, Sharma said.<br /><br />“We were sleeping and all of a sudden we heard a loud noise. When I came out to check, I saw fire all around. All my belongings were lying in my small hut and the fire has destroyed everything,” a victim said. Another resident of the colony said: “We first saw a small paper scrap warehouse between the slum clusters in flames. Before I could do anything, the blaze spread to our hut. I rushed in to rescue my children.”<br /><br />Later in the day, the Delhi government officials built temporary shelters and arranged food for the slum dwellers.<br /><br />Police said no one was injured in the incident. The exact cause of the fire is not known. <br /></p>
