- By Raju Kumar
- Sun, 18 May 2025 08:22 AM (IST)
- Source:JND
Lucknow Hotel Fire: A fire broke out in the pre-dawn hours of Sunday at a hotel located in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. Mohan Hotel's kitchen caught the fire. According to the CFO, there were around 30 people in the 17 occupied rooms who were evacuated safely.
The Chief Fire Official Lucknow, Mangesh Kumar, said, "It is an incident that happened around 12 in the Mohan Hotel. A fire broke out in the hotel's kitchen on the ground floor. 17 rooms of that hotel were occupied when the incident took place. No casualties have been reported. The fire has been extinguished."
The fire officials said that while 17 rooms of the hotel were occupied and the guests were safely evacuated from the hotel.
#WATCH | Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh | A fire broke out in the kitchen of Mohan Hotel. Fire tenders present at the spot. No casualties reported. pic.twitter.com/osgfqhCG53
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Kumar said the fire department received a call about the incident at midnight on Saturday about a fire in the kitchen of a hotel.
The CFO has said that the cause of the fire has not yet been ascertained, but it is suspected that LPG or electrical wiring might have caused it.
He said, "Nothing can be known yet because there was a fire in the kitchen, so there are many areas in the kitchen, which are there to catch fire because LPG is also there. There are other things that are used in cooking. There are electrical things."
(With agencies inputs)