A video from the area showed thick smoke emerging from the slum cluster consisting of 150 dwellings. Locals from around the area helped the fire fighters in bringing the blaze under control.
According to witnesses, the fire incident at the hospital caused chaos but the police controlled the situation and fire brigade officials extinguished the flame.
Fire broke out at TMC MLA Madan Mitra's residence in the Bhabanipur area in south Kolkata on Tuesday morning.
The fire on the 13th floor of the New Koilaghat building on Strand Road, which houses offices of the Railways at Kolkata's Strand Road claimed the lives of four firefighters, two railway officials, an assistant sub-inspector of Kolkata Police, a Railway Protection Force official and a security person.
Most of those killed are first responders -- four firefighters, one assistant sub-inspector posted at the Hare Street police station and an RPF personnel, officials said.
Railway Minister Piyush Goyal has set up a high-level committee to ascertain the cause of the fire at an Eastern Railway office building in Kolkata in which nine people were killed on Monday.
The seven people who have died in the Kolkata fire include four personnel of the fire department, one police personnel and a Railway Protection Force officer, informed West Bengal Fire and Emergency Services Minister Sujit Bose.
The fire broke out on the top floor of the 13-storied building here on Monday evening, according to a fire official. Fire tenders were pressed into service to douse the blaze at the building.
At least seven people were reported dead in a fire that broke out on the 12th floor of a multi-storeyed building in Kolkata's Strand Road area on Monday evening.
A fire broke out on the 12th floor of a multi-storeyed building in the city's Strand Road area on Monday evening. The blaze erupted at 6.10 pm in the building which has railway offices.
A fire broke out on the 12th floor of a multi-storeyed building in the city's Strand Road area on Monday evening. The blaze erupted at 6.10 pm in the building which has railway offices. A fire broke out on the 12th floor of a multi-storeyed building in the city's Strand Road area on Monday evening. The blaze erupted at 6.10 pm in the building which has railway offices.
The warehouse, located adjacent to a computer store and an eatery on Khetra Das Lane, was used for storing computer goods, they said.
Two persons, including a 12-year-old boy, were killed in a fire that broke out in a five-storeyed residential building at Ganesh Chandra Avenue here on Friday night, officials said.
Massive fire broke out in a commercial building in Kolkata on July 05. The building is located near Canning Street.
Three fire tenders were pressed into service to douse the flames which broke out at the factory at around 12.40 pm on Sunday, a fire department official said.
Fire breaks out at Kolkata Medical College and Hospital, patients safely evacuated
Fire breaks out in the pharmacy department of Kolkata Medical College and Hospital. No casualties reported
A massive fire, which raged on for over two days in heart of Kolkata's business hub Burrabazar, has gutted over 1,000 shops.
A senior police officer, who visited the area on Monday, said the situation has improved but firemen are still working to control the blaze.
It may take several hours more to fight the fire, a senior official of the fire department told PTI.
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