The BMC is to once again float tenders for modified firefighting bikes after one tender last year was rejected. Finding it immensely difficult, if not impossible, to negotiate Mumbai's narrow lanes and bylanes, the Mumbai fire brigade had last year, planned to procure motorcycles that could carry 40 litres of water and other firefighting equipment.

The BMC had rejected the idea as only one bidder had come forward. The fire brigade though has not given up on the idea and wants to reopen tenders and give this yet another shot, a report in this paper stated.