Fire in Ahmedabad’s children hospital, no casualties reported

PTI, May 13, 2019, 5:00 PM IST

Ahmedabad: A fire broke out on Monday in a four-storey building housing a children’s hospital in Ahmedabad, a city of Gujarat, an official said.

No casualty was reported in the mishap, he said. The blaze erupted in a fibre shed on the terrace of the Dev Complex building, that has a children’s hospital on the fourth floor, in the Parimal Garden area here, the fire official said.

According to the officials all the patients, mostly newborns admitted in the Apple Children Multi-Speciality Hospital were evacuated safely.

“A fibre shed in the building caught fire, resulting in a lot of smoke in the premises. Two fire-fighting vehicles and four water tankers were rushed to the spot and the blaze was controlled in 15 minutes,” Ahmedabad’s civic body chief fire officer M F Dastur said.