Your photos on Kolkata fire
A massive fire at Kolkata's Stephen Court, a heritage building in the heart of Kolkata, has killed 24 people and left about 18 injured, eight of whom are critical. Firemen recovered 17 bodies overnight as they went from door to door on the 5th, 6th and 7th floor of the building. Only 12 of these bodies have been identified so far. Stephen Court is a 150-year-old building on Park Street, home to two of the city's best known restaurants - the iconic Flury's and Peter Cat.
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A massive fire at Kolkata's Stephen Court, a heritage building in the heart of Kolkata, has killed 24 people and left about 18 injured, eight of whom are critical.
Firemen recovered 17 bodies overnight as they went from door to door on the 5th, 6th and 7th floor of the building. Only 12 of these bodies have been identified so far. Stephen Court is a 150-year-old building on Park Street, home to two of the city's best known restaurants - the iconic Flury's and Peter Cat.
Through this photofeature, we bring you pictures of the Kolkata inferno as captured by our surfers. Also, comments from around the country on the country's disaster management system.
Seen here, a picture posted by surfer Abhimanyu Chirimar who gave us a blow-by-blow account of the Kolkata fire through pictures posted on his twitter account http://twitter.com/abhic. -
A picture by Abhimanyu Chirimar on http://twitter.com/abhic.
SurferSpeak: Priya - It makes me sad to say this, but I truly do not have any faith in first response teams...whether they are firefighters or ambulances or whatever. The absolute disorganization of the emergency response teams and the substandard equipment provided to them is a scary combination. -
A picture by Abhimanyu Chirimar on http://twitter.com/abhic
SurferSpeak: Divya Nandan - The cities do have the infra-structure...the idea is how do you use them...most of the times there is lapse in the communication of the problem which causes the damage. -
A picture by Abhimanyu Chirimar on http://twitter.com/abhic
SurferSpeak: Sneha Dutta - As far as Kolkata goes, and being a Kolkattan, all I can say is the municipal corporation in this city is very inefficient. They have proved that time and again, be it with Aila or this time with the Park Street fire crisis! -
A picture by Ankit Bothra
SurferSpeak: Navin Bharwaj - Disaster management planning in our cities needs an innovative thought process that can deploy the existing infrastructure in uniquely innovative ways to prevent widespread loss of life and property in an emergency. Given the way emergency services get their budgetary allocations they will be perpetually short of money and hence our cities will never be equipped to deal with such emergencies. -
A picture by Aj Ar
SurferSpeak: Leonard - Our country is not equipped to deal with any kind of emergencies. Our country has no money to buy good equipments as we are very poor. We have money only to build statues, money garlands, sliver chairs etc. Until then we will use the available equipment which consists of wooden ladder, bed sheets for people to jump etc. -
A picture by Abhimanyu Chirimar on http://twitter.com/abhic
SurferSpeak: Harish - We have all the modern equipments to control any kind of emergencies, but the only problem is when will it get deployed to the spot? Really we fail on this fact which causes a huge setback, as witnessed today. -
A picture by Aj Ar
SurferSpeak: Kavi - Do we really have any infrastructure for supporting any kind of emergency? We don't have any proper road and traffic facility in which emergency vehicle can reach fast. All our equipments are old which won't work for tall buildings. We don't have fire engines which can reach the high buildings, we don't have proper safety measures in all buildings. Then how do we expect to reduce these kind of accidents in our country? -
A picture by Aj Ar
SurferSpeak: Anam Naqvi - There was Bangalore where the department made people jump down a building which killed them, now Kolkata fire. I definitely think the department should be better equipped and trained with newer technologies every few years.
