(Photo) Courtesy : Free Press Journal
NEW DELHI: Desperate residents made a makeshift bridge with bamboo sticks and a wooden ladder to escape a massive fire that engulfed their four-storey building in Noida’s Sector 66.
The fire, which started on the ground floor, soon spread upwards and dense smoke engulfed the upper floors of the building in Mamura village in which two persons died.
According to police, the ground-plus-four building housed at least 50 families.
Each floor had 12 rooms, which were being shared by multiple people. As the fire on the ground floor blocked the exit, residents escaped just in time using a makeshift route from the terrace.
Scary videos from the site showed people crossing to the adjacent building via a precariously placed makeshift bridge.
