Rekha and her bedridden husband Pradeep hold up a picture of their son Akash in their Sion Koliwada home. Pic/Suresh KK

For Rekha Thapar, 51, Friday's fire at Kamala Mills brought back memories of another unfortunate blaze, the one at the City Kinara restaurant in 2015, which took her son Akash away. Incidentally, it was Akash's birthday yesterday. What the incident also brought back was another reminder of the negligence displayed by authorities, which was behind both tragedies. According to Rekha, this fire could have been avoided had they taken lessons from the Kinara incident.