AMRI patient who escaped smelt fumes at 2.15, not 3.30 am

December 13, 2011 12:00

Updates on the AMRI hospital fire in Kolkata that killed 91.

A Telegraph, Calcutta story reveals that the fire broke out at 2:15 am and not the official 3.30 pm.

From the Telegraph: Chaitanya Singh Mehta, a 74-year-old patient at the Dhakuria AMRI last week, says he "smelt fumes' in his room around 2.15am. Mehta's account to The Telegraph punches holes in what hospital sources have been saying so far -- that the fire started at 3.30am -- to explain why AMRI officials got in touch with police only at 4.10am. Two minutes before that '" but nearly two hours after the fire was first noticed -- the police had already called the fire brigade.

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