Hyderabad, May 19 -- Telangana director general of fire services Y Nagi Reddy, on Monday, May 19, refuted the allegations from various quarters, including eyewitnesses and relatives of the victims of the Gulzar Houz fire accident, that fire tenders lacked sufficient water or breathing equipment.

In a statement through 'FactCheck_Telangana,' which verifies fake news and misinformation on social media, Reddy has termed the allegations misleading and false.

Posting a video of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president KT Rama Rao, who earlier alleged the lack of training to firefighters, FactCheck_Telangana has marked his claim as 'false'. The post contained Nagi Reddy's version of the rescue efforts.

Reddy, who described the house th...