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Spark From Water Motor Turns Into Flame In Majlis Park, 13 People Burnt Due To Cylinder Explosion

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Anand Kumar
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February 22, 2026

Firefighters and other people present at the spot after a fire broke out in a house located in Majlis Park. Awakening

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Jagran correspondent, outer Delhi. A fire broke out in the parking lot of a house in Majlis Park on Sunday morning due to spark in a water motor. The fire spread so fast that the domestic cylinder kept in the parking lot burst. Then 13 people, including three policemen and three firemen, who were engaged in relief and rescue work, got burnt due to the fire.

Referred to Safdarjung Hospital

After the blast, information was given to the control room. With the help of the ambulance that reached the spot, the burnt people were sent to the nearby Max and Babu Jagjivan Ram Hospital. Everyone was given treatment there. Later everyone was referred to Safdarjung Hospital. The condition of two of the casualties remains critical. Adarsh ​​Nagar police station has registered a case under relevant sections and started investigation. Further action is being taken after interrogating the victim's family.

reached the neighbor's house

Additional Police Commissioner of North-Western District, Bhisham Singh said that at around 9:01 am on Sunday, the police and fire department received the news that Majlis was set up in a building in Park, Street No. 6. Ramesh Goyal, Deepak Goyal and Ravi Goyal live here in a four-storey house of C-45, 111 yards. When a fire suddenly broke out in the parking lot in the morning, the people present in the house reached the neighbor's house by taking the stairs. Later everyone saved their lives.

Fire brought under control on ground floor

Meanwhile, fire brigade vehicles along with the police reached there. The fire on the ground floor was brought under control. Meanwhile, neighbors also reached the ground floor along with the rescue team. Suddenly there was an explosion in the cylinder kept in the corner.

During this time, ASI Sandeep of the police station, constable Rahul, ASI Prempal posted in PCR, fire brigade personnel Ved Prakash, Suresh Pahal, Sitaram and Sandeep came under the influence of fire.

At the same time, Deepak Goyal, Sher Singh, Rajesh and Jagdeep and others also got burnt. Some injured were sent to Babu Jagjivan Ram Hospital while four were sent to Max Hospital. Later all the injured were referred to Safdarjung Hospital.

Crime and forensic team also arrived

Later, fire brigade personnel with the help of seven vehicles brought the fire under control after two hours. After preliminary investigation, it was found that a spark came from a water motor kept in the parking lot and due to this the fire broke out. Police are trying to find out the cause of the fire. After receiving the information, crime team and FSL also reached there. From where many evidences have been collected. After about two hours of hard work, the fire was somehow controlled. The police is investigating the case

The glass of the house broke due to the sound of the explosion.

The explosion was so powerful that apart from the victim's house, the windows of many nearby houses also broke. As soon as they heard the loud sound of the explosion, people nearby started running here and there. Elderly Rajesh, a local resident, told that he was reading a newspaper on the ground floor of his house when a loud sound of explosion was heard.

He was very scared, he could not understand what had happened. He ran outside, during which he fell down. Resident Roshan said that there was smoke everywhere in the street. He ran out of the house along with his family, but after some time the situation was brought under control.

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