Fire breaks out in electricity meter box

A fire broke out in an electricity meter control box on the ground floor of a residential building in Vivek Vihar Phase-I in east Delhi on Sunday, officials said.

Nothing to fear, as it was a small fire in the MC box, the officials said, adding that there were no casualties or injuries. According to the Delhi Fire Services (DFS), a call regarding the incident near Block C was received at 1.40 pm, following which one fire tender was rushed to the spot.

“Immediately, the patrolling staff rushed to the spot, and it was found that in C189 Vivek Vihar, there was a fire in the electricity junction box installed in the stilt parking of the building,” a police officer said.

The police said the intensity of the fire was increasing. The police staff, showing promptness, arranged a fire extinguisher from a nearby gas agency and a school and doused the fire.

“There were about five to six cars parked in the parking lot. Timely action and promptness of local police prevented a major fire,” the officer said.

The officer said the “stop” message, indicating completion of the firefighting operation, was received at 2.40 pm.

This comes days after a devastating fire ripped through a residential building in east Delhi’s Vivek Vihar in the early hours of May 3, leaving nine people from two families, including a toddler, dead, with an air-conditioner blast suspected to have triggered the blaze, officials said.