India, Nov. 13 -- The death of a liftman on Saturday due to a fire at the Runwal Elegante building in Andheri West has brought the focus back on a proposed fire station at Chitrakoot ground in Ambivli, which has been pending for nearly 35 years.

On Thursday, Andheri West MLA and BJP Mumbai president Ameet Satam wrote to municipal commissioner Ashwini Bhide, urging the civic body to expedite construction of the proposed fire station. Satam referred to recent fires that had exposed the area's vulnerability and urged the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to either reclaim the government land reserved for the facility, which was allotted to Shah Construction, or compel the developer to construct the fire station and hand it over to th...