Fire erupts in Vasundhara due to AC blast, two-story building affected
The AC blast caused a fire in both cases.The Ghaziabad incident happened earlier today in one of the houses in Vasundhara. According to CFO Rahul Pal, the fire erupted in the two-story building due to the AC blast. The Vasundhara fire station received the information about the fire around 5:30 am and the fire department managed to control it in around an hour using two fire trucks.
AC short circuit causes fire on 17th floor of Noida apartment, no casualties reported
Another incident was reported yesterday (June 5) on the 17th floor of Eldeco Amantran apartment, Sector 119, Noida. A police officer said that no casualties were reported and the fire took place around 8 pm “due to a short circuit in the air conditioner in the flat and spread through its balcony”.
“The fire brigade was called in immediately and the blaze was brought under control completely,” the official further added.
Noida CFO issued two important advisories to prevent AC blasts
These two aren’t the only fire cases registered in Delhi-NCR regions in the past few days. Recently, AC bast took place in Lotus Boulevard Sector 100 and CFO Pradeep Kumar Choubey issued an advisory to prevent fire incidents caused due to AC.
“The temperature outside is nearly 50 degrees Celsius, leading to higher usage of air conditioners and a surge in power demand. I want to request people not to use their ACs throughout the day,” said Choubey.
The chief fire officer also said that it is important to get your ACs services regularly and advised users to not put extra load on them. He added that many fire incidents reported in the city this summer season are related to ACs.