Gurgaon's fourth fire station opens in Udyog Vihar.

Updated On, 16 April 2012: GURGAON: After much delay, the fourth fire station in the city, situated at Udyog Vihar was inaugurated on Saturday. The other three fire stations are at Sector 29, 37 and at Bhim Nagar.A fire station in the area was necessary as there are many factories and industries where a large number of people work. At present, there are two fire tenders, five firemen and eight drivers in the fire station. According to Municipal Corporation Gurgaon (MCG) officials, the staff and infrastructure will be improved gradually.

"Udyog Vihar is an industrial belt and has numerous factories including chemical ones. Even a small fire can prove disastrous and therefore we wanted to make this station operational at the earliest. We will procure the tenders according to the need of the area," said A MCG official.The fire station originally belonged to HSIIDC but was later on handed over to MCG.

Even though the building and other infrastructure was in place, the delay in making it operational was due to lack of coordination between MCG and electricity department. The process to make electricity supply available took a lot of time and therefore we could not inaugurate it earlier," he added further.