Fire fighters carry out rescue work after a fire broke out at the Crystal Tower at Parel in Mumbai. PTI Photo/Shashank Parade On Wednesday morning, a fire broke out in a ground-plus-16 floor building at the Crystal Tower in Mumbai‘s Parel which left 4 dead and 16 injured. As per the reports, the injured are fine and undergoing treatment in KEM Hospital. However, keeping in mind the intensity of the fire, it is really a miracle too see so many people survived. Meanwhile, as the fire-tenders were trying to rescue the residents trapped in fire, a 10-year-old girl saved the day with the lessons she had recently learnt in her school. The girl is grade 6 student.
The 10-year-old Zen Gunratan Sadvarte learnt a lesson from her school teacher who told her dos and don’ts when you are stuck in fire. Zen was quoted by NDTV as saying she was sleeping at the time and it is her mother who spotted the smoke and alerted the family. “There was blasts burning and just gasses gathering over the house and the room. We couldn’t breathe, I couldn’t breathe so we went into the kitchen. My father thought that the kitchen would be much safer than anything,” she said.
In the middle of chaos, Zen used her fire safety tips to help to save her family and neighbours. She asked them not to panic and asked them to cover their nose with a wet cloth to prevent form getting suffocated. Neighbours then rushed out of their flats and one girl was out of breath because of asthma.
“In asthma, you can’t breathe well, the carbon was hurtful for her. I gathered everyone at the gallery of 1603.”
When the firefighters asked people to come down, the Class 6 student told them it was not a good idea. “I took the phone and said we cannot come down as it will create a lot of panic and panic won’t allow us to breathe,” Zen told reporters.
Zen said she had done much research into disaster management when she was all of seven. “I researched in grade 3 because you are judged over one topic. And I took disaster management. I don’t know whether my data is saved right now or not but…” The knowledge certainly helped when she needed it the most.
Meanwhile, the blaze has been brought under control and cooling operations are underway, officials said. The 16 injured, including six women, were undergoing treatment and their condition was reported to be stable, it said. Two of the deceased were identified as Bablu Shaikh (36) and Shubhada Shelke (62), the civic body said.