The major fire that broke out in south Delhi's Malviya Nagar on Tuesday evening was doused after 19 hours with the use of 65 fire tenders by Wednesday noon. A truck with a Punjab number plate, which was loaded with rubber sheets and parked inside a godown in the Khirki Extension area, caught fire at 5 pm on Tuesday. The blaze eventually spread inside the godown of a private company, which is in the business of providing rubber raw material for re-threading of vehicle tyres. Apart from police and fire department, teams from DDMA, Air Force and civil defence were being engaged in the relief and rescue operations. The helicopter buckets of Indian Air Force made three sorties to extinguish fire. Five fire tenders with dry chemical power (DCP) foam were also engaged in the operation.

The major fire that broke out in south Delhi's Malviya Nagar on Tuesday evening was doused after 19 hours with the use of 65 fire tenders by Wednesday noon. A truck with a Punjab number plate, which was loaded with rubber sheets and parked inside a godown in the Khirki Extension area, caught fire at 5 pm on Tuesday. The blaze eventually spread inside the godown of a private company, which is in the business of providing rubber raw material for re-threading of vehicle tyres. Apart from police and fire department, teams from DDMA, Air Force and civil defence were being engaged in the relief and rescue operations. The helicopter buckets of Indian Air Force made three sorties to extinguish fire. Five fire tenders with dry chemical power (DCP) foam were also engaged in the operation.