These Three Brave Cops Rescued A Couple Trapped In Building Blaze In Delhi
It all started at 5.50 am when locals at Chuna Mandi-I Colony informed the police about the fire. By the time the fire brigade arrived, the fire spread through the four-storeyed structure.
In a daring rescue operation, three police personnel saved a couple from a blaze that engulfed a building in central Delhi's Pahaganj. Another person, who was trapped in the building, jumped from the third floor to escape the fire and injured himself.
DCP (central) Mandeep Randhawa has announced a reward for the three cops. He said a case has been filed and action will be taken against the guilty once the cause of the fire is known. Police said the blaze spread rapidly because of some plastic material stored in the first floor.
It all started at 5.50 am when locals at Chuna Mandi-I Colony informed the police about the fire. By the time the fire brigade arrived, the fire spread through the four-storeyed structure.
The building housed three families, all of whom managed to escape. The families tried to call the couple - Balraj Chowdhury (45) and Ganga Devi (43) - but failed to contact them.
"I woke up when I saw the smoke in my room. I immediately asked my husband to rush out of the building. When we went out of the room, we heard people asking us to rush downstairs," said Devi. "But it was too late by then.
Apart from us, our neighbour got trapped too. Before we could even figure out what to do, our neighbour jumped off the third floor. While his family rushed him to the hospital, we were stuck," she said.
Trapped inside a house that was on fire, a woman was rescued by the cops in Paharganj, this morning. She was hanging from the grilles and was just about to fall when the cops reached out to her rescue. @TOIDelhi pic.twitter.com/qS9Hm1zgz9
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All the couple had was a ladder. Chowdhury, the woman's husband, said, "I managed to climb up the third floor from the second after convincing my wife that I would pull her up. But by the time I climbed up, the fire spread rapidly till the second floor, where my wife was trapped. With no option left, she held on to the grilles of our balcony."
She said she was losing grip but what happened next was least expected. The three cops posted nearby -head constable Manoj, constable Sandeep and constable Amit-noticed the smoke and rushed to help without any safety gear. They managed to come to the balcony above Devi's floor and formed a human chain to grab the woman's hand.
One of them pulled a ladder kept at the balcony and pushed it down for Devi to place her foot and climb up. "The man was godsend for me as I was losing grip. Had they not reached me for a few more seconds, I would have fallen," said Devi.
Manoj and his colleagues climbed up from the adjacent building and broke the door of the house on the third floor to reach the balcony.