A 60-year-old man, partially paralyzed, tragically lost his life in a fire that erupted in his third-floor flat in Paharganj, central Delhi, on Monday afternoon. The fire broke out around 2:40 PM and was reported to the Delhi Fire Services, which dispatched two fire tenders that took about 30 minutes to control the blaze. The victim's 40-year-old son attempted to rescue him but suffered minor burns in the process. Firefighters and police faced difficulties entering the locked room where the victim was trapped due to thick smoke and flames. They finally accessed the room after extinguishing the fire, but the man was found unconscious and later pronounced dead at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital. Preliminary investigations suggest that a short circuit may have caused the fire, but the exact origin is still under investigation. The family had left home earlier that day for work, and upon learning of the fire, rushed back to the scene.