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NEW DELHI: Dangling wires, dingy lanes and rows of hotels within a market turns Paharganj into a tinderbox. In case of an emergency, a fire tender might take hours to reach.Arun Gupta of Hotel Maha Sangh, an association of hotel owners, blamed the fire rules and the apathy of the government to implement a tourist policy. “The norms of running a hotel or the fire safety rules for them should be revised. A Karol Bagh-like incident here could become a bigger disaster.Some of the hotels here have rooftop restaurants while others have aesthetically-designed wooden or carpeted walls. Except for hand-held fire extinguishers, most of the hotels here have no other fire-fighting equipment..