Fire breaks out at Noida hotel, 1 killed
A 27-year-old woman died of asphyxiation after a massive fire broke out on Saturday evening on the fourth floor of a newly inaugurated hotel in Hazipur in Sector 104, Noida, police said on Sunday. The woman had checked into the hotel barely three hours before the fire with her boyfriend, who is undergoing treatment for asphyxiation in a hospital, police added.
Pradeep Kumar Chaubey, the hotel staff failed to alert the couple about the fire. The couple only became aware of the fire when smoke had filled their room on the sixth floor, said CFO Chaubey. There was also a half-hour gap between the outbreak of the fire and when it was reported to the fire control room, said police. Police have registered a first information report against the hotel for causing death by negligence.
The two were the only people in the hotel aside from the staff when the fire broke out, said police.
“The fire broke out on the fourth floor of the six-floor hotel at 5pm. Initially the hotel staff tried to douse the fire on their own. Around 5.35pm, they informed the fire control room and ten fire tenders were rushed to the scene. The blaze was brought under control with just one tender within 15 minutes,” said chief fire officer Pradeep Kumar Chaubey. He added that the fire broke out due to ongoing maintenance work at the hotel. Exact details will be revealed during further investigation, he said.