Fire hazards are something we cannot forecast well in advance. A short circuit and the entire building is up ablaze. But fire accidents can actually be well in control if you are aware and alert enough. These three heroes of fire hazards recently hav...

Creative Film Director, Social Activist, Environmentalist, Anti Corruption Crusader & Public Interest Litigant, Jawaharlal Shanmugam, our fire champion, is familiar in the court circles of Chennai where he’s seen almost every day!   Sh...

In June 2017, Anupama Hotel, a seven-storied building in Madhuranagar at Shamshabad, Telangana, caught fire. There were 30 employees trapped inside the building. As the fire was engulfing the top two floors they could not come out of the building thr...

Over 300 fire calls a day, Tsunami, megafloods and a disaster call any moment in the accident-prone & the fire-prone city of Chennai, firefighting seems like a child’s play for Ms. Meenakshi Vijayakumar. One of the most popular women officers o...

45% burns in the line of duty. A committed lady officer. Recipient of the 2012 President’s Award for Gallantry. These are but some of the ways in which our Fire Champion, Ms. Priya Ravichandran, currently Deputy Director (Headquarters) of Tamil...

It was the weekend. Like many, Sunny Verma only wanted to take his family out for some fun. Unsurprisingly, they decided to head to Orion Mall, the largest one in Bangalore. He parked the car in the mall basement. Upon getting out of the car, he happ...

After 4.30 pm on 23 February 2010, the lives of family members of 9 people changed forever. The Carlton Towers fire in Bangalore claimed someone’s son, someone’s spouse, someone’s someone else – and life after that felt shattered to those...