Spying flames vomiting from a Manhattan tenement one night last week ... The fire, starting on the third floor, shot up the stair well, down the hallways and through the flimsy walls and doors ...

During a visit to two of the tenements­–K P Park in Pulianthope and TT Block in Vyasarpadi –TNIE found several lifts dysfunctional. Spread across eight blocks with over 1,900 houses, the K P ...