Monday, February 22, 2010

Shops blocked ventilation, made illegal changes


Borivali fire ; Civic body to survey old commercial complexes
Shops at Borivali’s Goyal Shopping Centre, which caught fire on Friday, had blocked a mandatory ventilation system located at the basement level, obstructed exit doors and had not installed any sprinkling mechanism. A fire brigade officer was killed in the blaze that took his colleagues almost 12 hours to douse.
The shops had made several structural changes and had allegedly flouted the Development Control regulations, prompting the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation to order a survey of all similar old commercial shopping complexes in the city.

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