Over 200 fire related incidents in Delhi on Diwali

A blaze at a shop in the Sadar Bazar area of central Delhi was among the over 200 fire-related incidents reported on Diwali, officials said on Sunday.

As many as 214 fire-related calls were received from Saturday midnight until 11 pm on Sunday.

"There has been no decline in the number of calls related to fire-incidents. We have been constantly attending to emergencies on call and rushing our team to the spot," a senior fire official said.

However, no injury or casualty has been reported in any of the incident so far, officials said.

"The fire broke out in a shop that was housed on the fourth and fifth floors of the building and contained packaging materials and plastic toys, which were gutted in the blaze," the fire official said.

The call about the blaze in the shop was received at 3 pm, after which 12 fire tenders were rushed and the blaze was brought under control by 4.25 pm, he said.

A fire also broke out at a sanitary shop in northeast Delhi's Jagatpuri area, the official ...