Mumbai: Narrow bylanes make rescue operations a nightmare as fire engines fail to manoeuvre

Mumbai | Wednesday | 17th July, 2019

Summary:

Flavours of the city are found in its in narrow bylanes which can be predominantly seen in south Mumbai. But on Tuesday, the same narrow and congested bylanes of Dongri created hurdles in the rescue operations after an old building had collapsed there. Between the main road and the building collapse site; there were blue coloured tarpaulin sheet covered structures and buildings. This caused a lot of problems for the fire engines who found it difficult to manoeuvre and reach the site. S N Pradhan, Director General, National Disaster Response Force said that three teams of NDRF were engaged in rescue operations who reached their on-foot..