'If we can get a lot of water bomber activity on that, what happens then is we're able to get on an edge or a plank of that fire's perimeter, where it's safe to do so with crews, and we can start putting out hose lines out and start containing that fire.”Įnvironment Canada said the weather will play a large role in what happens next. 'We really got to get the crews on that fire soon,' provincial forest fire duty officer Jeff Motty told CBC News on Tuesday. Water bombers are being used to battle the blaze. Populated areas are cut off as the fires covered both sides of the highway and the Paradise Lake fire is so large that firefighters cannot get to the conflagration. The fire in the area of Paradise Lake grew to 96 square kilometers, almost doubling in size from Monday and the other blaze near the Grand Falls-Windsor area increased 50%. Newfoundland is a huge 407-square-kilometer (157-square-mile) island off Canada's east coast. States of emergency are in effect in some areas as helicopters airlifted in food and supplies. That’s the bull case for the company, which competes with Swiggy, whose private market valuation recently surpassed Zomato’s market cap.Two massive forest fires raging for two weeks have cut off towns and thousands of people in the province of Newfoundland as officials prayed on Tuesday for rain and diminishing winds.

Its acquisition of / merger with Blinkit is likely to give it access to scores of dark stores that can deliver the results. Zomato has previously attempted its hands in the 10-minute grocery delivery space. “This is one of the biggest endeavours towards our mission statement of “better food for more people,” Goyal wrote today. The announcement comes days after Zomato reached an agreement to acquire Blinkit, another loss-making firm that pivoted to instant grocery delivery last year.

Sophisticated dish-level demand prediction algorithms, and future-ready in-station robotics are employed to ensure that your food is sterile, fresh and hot at the time it is picked by the delivery partner,” he added. “The fulfilment of our quick delivery promise relies on a dense finishing stations’ network, which is located in close proximity to high-demand customer neighbourhoods. “Time optimisation does not happen on the road, and does not put any lives at risk,” Deepinder Goyal, the chief executive of Zomato, wrote in a blog post. In fact, the publicly listed company says its delivery partners won’t actually know that those deliveries are supposed to be shipped in 10 minutes. Zomato insists that it won’t pressure or penalize its delivery partners to ensure a delivery in 10 minutes.

The company is calling this new service Zomato Instant. The company, which also once touted using deliveries by drones, said today starting next month it will begin delivering food in 10 minutes in its home city of Gurugram in what appears to be a first by any food delivery firm across the globe. But what if the same experience could be extended to hot, freshly prepared lunch and dinner? India’s Zomato, which has struggled to deliver grocery in 10 minutes in the past, and lately profits to its shareholders, seems juiced up to make that happen. You’ve heard about - and depending on where you live, probably tried - having startups deliver grocery to you in 10 minutes.

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