The new year has begun with yet another fire in the city. The body of one person was found at a TV studio in Kanjurmarg, where a shooting set was gutted by a blaze on Saturday evening. This comes after the recent blazes at Kamala Mills and a Marol building.

Plenty has been written about how corruption is allowing proliferation of structures and buildings without proper firefighting equipment. One agrees that the Kamala Mills fire needs to be the catalyst that ensures a clean-up of such corruption. This is the moment that the city’s activists need to seize. Hugely tragic though it is, it should be a springboard to starting a movement that cleans up the dirt and apathy, within and outside.