Most restaurants and eateries we visit are tinderboxes, but we are seemingly unaware of it until a tragedy happens and we gasp at how we were ‘fortunate’ to not be there when it happened. A report in this paper points to exactly this.

Two eateries in Malad were found by the fire department to be flouting safety norms, posing a threat to not just themselves and their patrons but also to the industrial estate they are operating next to.