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Residents of a residential gathering astatine Asif Nagar crossroads spent Thursday (May 14, 2026) day lasting connected the roadside watching fume determination retired of the crushed level furnishings showroom beneath their flats.
The blaze astatine M.J. Classic Furniture Shop, a cellar-plus-ground-plus-three-floor structure, led to the evacuation and rescue of astir 40 radical surviving successful 9 flats successful the building. Fire officials said the incidental erstwhile again exposed the unsafe and amerciable signifier of operating commercialized establishments from residential buildings successful Hyderabad.
According to the Fire Department, the occurrence telephone was received astatine 1.34 p.m., pursuing which teams from Amberpet and Gowliguda occurrence stations rushed to the spot. Preliminary probe revealed that the occurrence originated from an electrical abbreviated circuit successful the mendacious ceiling of the showroom.
The incidental comes little than 5 months aft a fire astatine Batchas Furniture Castle successful Nampally claimed 5 lives, including 2 children, pursuing a firefighting cognition that lasted much than 20 hours.
In March, different occurrence astatine a furnishings store operating from impermanent sheds successful Pragathi Nagar, Bachupally, dispersed rapidly to astir 15 adjacent units and reduced them to ashes.
By the clip firefighters arrived astatine Asif Nagar, heavy fume had engulfed portions of the building. Residents, including children and aged people, were panicking and figuring their mode down the staircase aft noticing fume spreading upwards from the crushed floor.
Firefighting operations astatine M.J. Classic Furniture store successful Asif Nagar connected Thursday | Photo Credit: By Arrangement
Officials said the proprietor and workers initially attempted to douse the flames themselves utilizing astir 15 occurrence extinguishers earlier informing the Fire Department. However, the occurrence intensified rapidly due to the fact that of the combustible worldly stored wrong the showroom.
A negligence lawsuit has been booked against the owner, Mohammed Shakeel, who was besides residing successful 1 of the flats.
Fire officials said the timing of the incidental prevented a larger tragedy. “Because it was daytime, residents noticed the fume aboriginal and managed to travel out. At night, galore radical whitethorn not adjacent realise a occurrence has started until fume fills the rooms,” a elder Fire Department authoritative said, recalling the Gulzar Houz calamity that claimed 17 lives.
Under provisions of the National Building Code and occurrence information regulations, furnishings godowns, carpentry workshops, foam retention units, and different highly combustible commercialized activities are not permitted to run wrong residential buildings without occurrence information clearances and approved occupancy permissions. Furniture establishments are considered high-risk due to the fact that they store highly inflammable worldly specified arsenic wood, foam, paint, thinner and adhesives, allowing occurrence to dispersed rapidly and make toxic smoke.
“These establishments proceed operating successful densely populated areas without No Objection Certificate from the Fire Department and due licensing, posing a superior menace to residents,” the authoritative said. “Continuous inspections and stricter enactment against violators are necessary, different these incidents volition support repeating.”
