Delhi News: Fire Breaks Out At Okhla Landfill, Operations Underway To Extinguish Flames VIDEO

(MENAFN- Live Mint) A fire broke out at the Okhla landfill site on Friday.

Videos purporting to show smoke billowing from the landfill became widely circulated on social media.

Following the information, eight fire tenders reached the spot and efforts are underway to douse the fire.

"We received a call regarding a fire at the Okhla landfill around 2:45 pm. Eight fire engines were sent to the spot and efforts to douse the flames are underway," Delhi Fire Services official said, according to news agency PTI report.

The local police have also been informed.

Earlier, in the day a fire broke out at a slum cluster near Upvan Apartment in Sector 28, Rohini. According to the Delhi Fire Service, 12 fire tenders were rushed to the site and no casualties have been reported as of now.

The fire spread to 20 huts in the slum and a scrap godown.

In January, nearly 250 residents were evacuated after a fire broke out in a five-storey building in Maharashtra's Thane city.

No one was injured in the blaze which erupted at around 5 am in a laundry shop on the ground floor of the building located at Srinagar in Wagle Estate area, Thane Municipal Corporation's disaster management cell chief Yasin Tadvi had said.

After being alerted, local fire personnel and the regional disaster management cell team members rushed to the spot to carry out the fire extinguishing operations and evacuated the building occupants, he had said.

The blaze was put out in about an hour following which the people were allowed to return to their apartments, the official said.

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