mumbai nearly a month after a fire broke out at a mall in mumbai central the fire brigade has issued a notice to the mall management and a registered consultant who had issued a false fire compliance certificate the malls firefighting system was not in working condition when the fire broke out yet its management had submitted a fire compliance certificate stating that it was in goodworking condition also 29 malls in the city have been issued notices after their fire compliance was out of orderon october 22 a shortcircuit in a shop on the second floor of city centre mall building at mumbai central had caused the fire that raged for three days advt the incident spurred the fire brigade to check all malls and retail outlets in the city for fire compliance as they had opened after several months of lockdown the fire brigade found that fire compliance was not in place at 29 of 60 premises that they inspected the fire brigade issued notices to the 29 premises asking them to put fire compliance in place or face actionan official said that fire compliances including the firefighting systems should be in working condition and there should be no additional change to the premises that can create hurdles during firefightingchief fire officer shashikant kale said we inspected 60 malls in the last few days and issued notices to 29 for noncompliance some places had minor noncompliance issues which the malls agreed to fix at the earliest we asked others to make the required changes to avoid further actionthe fire brigade inspection report of these malls and retail outlets is an indication of how such establishments compromise with safety normscity centre mall fire is an example how a fire incident led to a serious incident with fire compliances not in placebmc found that many unauthorized shops were created on the premises using partitions that had created an impediment in the firefighting process by vijay v singh tnn published on nov 20 2020 at 1141 am ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etretail app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app mumbai central mall fire brigade notice mall bmc mumbai mall fire homenewsmumbai central mall gets fire brigade notice for false compliance certificate 29 others in dock