No fire-fighting equipment in place

BANGALORE: The houses adjacent to the factory were made of brick and stone and all of them had iron / asbestos-sheet roofs. There was very little open space between the houses themselves, five of which were flattened. There was also no space between these five houses and the three-storeyed building which housed the factory.
Locals said the factory did not have pillars, one of the reasons why the roof collapsed onto houses behind.The building had some open space in front, a basement and two floors on top. The houses too were very small, with tiny rooms. Anyone could have got trapped easily in the rubble.
The kalyan mantap and three-storeyed building did not have any fire escapes or fire-fighting equipment. To add to the chaos, the building has a cellphone tower. The kalyan mantap building on which the tower rests is so damaged that another crack could flatten the mantap too, causing enormous casualties. The licence for the mobile tower would have to be examined and civil engineering experts will have to determine if it's safe to retain the tower on a damaged building. Residents and police personnel feel it's better if the tower is dismantled.
Unanswered questions
* With buildings close to each other and a chemical factory using gas cylinders in one of them, why didn't the kalyan mantap owner think about safety?
* How were six cylinders allowed in the basement?
* Did the factory have a permit to use cylinders?