Firemen on high alert for a safe New Year's Eve

New Delhi: While the entire Capital would be busy celebrating, the Delhi Fire Services (DFS) will not be relaxing on the eve of the New Year, with its personnel busy on constant vigil on Sunday night.

Senior fire officers have directed their staff to carry out inspection in various parts of the city, especially places where large gathering of New Year's revellers are expected.

Learning lessons from the Kamala Mills inferno on Friday in Mumbai, which left over a dozen people it seems that DFS will leave no stone unturned to provide adequate safety arrangements at most vulnerable places in the Capital.

"All the offices of DFS have been asked to carry out the inspection and especially visit restaurants and other crowded places in their respective area," said chief fire officer, DFS, Atul Garg.

"It has also been decided by the fire department that fire tenders will be placed on standby at all prominent places on Sunday night," Garg further said.

To this end, on New Year's Eve, alert firefighters and fire tenders would be present at strategic locations across the city, depending upon the concentration of crowd and the places where high profile pubs, hotels, restaurants and bars are located, and huge gathering would be expected.

Meanwhile, the Delhi Traffic Police has made elaborate arrangements at several upmarket localities, such as Saket, M-Block Market Greater Kailash, Chirag Delhi, New Friends Colony, Defence Colony, South Extension, Mehrauli, Aya Nagar Border, Khanpur, Nehru Place near Eros Hotel, Govind Puri Metro station, Vasant Vihar, Vasant Kunj, Kapashera, Dwarka, Netaji Subash Place, Rohini, Pitampura, Ashok Vihar, GT Karnal Road, Karkardooma, Laxmi Nagar, Preet Vihar, Mayur Vihar phases I and II.