Kiran Jonnalagadda (jackerhack), an avid blogger trapped in the fire, kept tweeting friends through the ordeal
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Kiran Jonnalagadda (jackerhack), an avid blogger trapped in the fire, kept tweeting friends through the ordeal
5 pm: Carlton Towers is burning and six of us are trapped inside. The fire's above but there's smoke everywhere. Saw people jump to their death.
Fire at Carlton Towers
Don't call me folks, you can't help. Will keep posting.
Waiting to be rescued.
Our rescue ladder. It'll only reach the fourth floor. We're on the fifth.
Seriously, people, there's no need to panic. Bad for you.
Heard it's not a fire, just an electric short-circuit. Only smoke (itself quite dangerous).
6 pm: Massive crowd outside. This must have choked traffic for kilometres around.
7pm: Cycling home. Won't take calls.
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| MiD DAY & Carlton |
| In a reminder of the poor disaster response system of the city, nine people, three of them women, died and 68 were injured when a fire broke out at Carlton Towers, a seven-storey commercial complex on HAL Airport Road, yesterday. Seven were brought dead to hospital. At least three leapt to their death by breaking open windows on the sixth and seventh floors in panic as a thick blanket of smoke engulfed the floors. |
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