Fire-fighting Mumbai

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It's not easy to be a fireman in Mumbai. It's a complex city with unpredictable traffic and narrow roads at many places making it difficult for fire tenders to reach on time. And even when they do, an already chagrined public vents out all their anger on those who have managed to reach to their rescue. Incidents of an over eager public dismantling rescue equipment on their own in a bid to speed up the process abound in cases of building collapses. Then there are the residential apartments which serve as storerooms for inflammable chemicals, the unauthorized constructions blocking approach roads, blatant disregard of building permission rules and many other cases of negligence which ultimately lead to a fire or a building collapse. And its not just building collapses and fires that these firemen are called to tackle. Some of the most frequent calls are for rescuing trapped animals, crows....