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Kalbadevi fire: Age-old cables, BEST staff crunch keep nine buildings in the dark

Updated On: 12 May, 2015 07:50 AM IST | | Shashank Rao

Officials from the undertaking say that it will take at least a week to give a permanent power connection to the nine buildings that have been in the dark since Saturday’s fire in Gokul Niwas

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Two firemen had lost their lives in the blaze, which was reportedly triggered by a short-circuit

Two firemen had lost their lives in the blaze, which was reportedly triggered by a short-circuit

Two days after a blaze gutted the 50-year-old, four-storeyed Gokul Niwas in Kalbadevi on Saturday, the Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) workers who went to restore the electricity connection were seen cursing the age-old cables, which are at least as old as the building itself.

Two firemen had lost their lives in the blaze, which was reportedly triggered by a short-circuit.
Two firemen had lost their lives in the blaze, which was reportedly triggered by a short-circuit. Pic/Sayyed Sameer Abedi 

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