17 November,2023 09:22 AM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
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A fire broke out in an industrial estate in Mumbai's Malad area on Thursday night stated Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) Mumbai Fire Brigade. According to the preliminary information received, the fire, given the status of a Level 1 blaze, had broken out at Ramchandra Lane of the estate around 9.38 pm on November 16.
In an update the following day, the MFB alerted that the fire was contained by 12.37 am on Friday, November 17.
According to MFB, the fire was confined to specific areas of the ground + one structure; they said the blaze was spread across five to six galas (aisles) on the first floor of the structure and primarily affected electric wiring, electric installations, as well as stocks of clothes, leather bags, trolley bags, a lith machine, and plastic granules.
The MFB rushed to the location as soon as they were notified about the fire and had extinguished it by 12.28 am, averting further escalation or damage.
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Fortunately, in the incident, no one was injured. However, the cause of the fire has not been ascertained yet.
Recently, the city and metropolitan region saw many incidents of fire. In an incident from Thane district, a cotton yarn manufacturing unit had caught fire. The unit, located in Bhiwandi's Osia Mata Compound was charred after it caught fire around 9.35 earlier this week. Fire brigade units from Thane and Kalyan arrived to assist the Bhiwandi fire brigade with the blaze.
According to the officials, the Bhiwandi fire brigade deployed two fire vehicles, while Thane's team arrived with a jumbo water tanker vehicle and Kalyan's brigade sent one fire vehicle to the site. According to a later update from the Bhiwandi Fire Department, the fire was completely extinguished by 3.35 am the following day.
Meanwhile, on Thursday, in another incident of fire, as many as thirty electricity meters were gutted in a fire that broke out in the meter box room of an eight-storey building in Thane's Ghodbunder Road area. According to a report in PTI, nobody was injured in the blaze that erupted in the residential building located in the Waghbil area around 1 pm.
The report quoted Yasin Tadvi, chief of the Thane civic body's disaster management cell, as saying, "After being alerted about the incident, the local fire brigade personnel and the disaster management cell team rushed to the spot. One fire engine was engaged in the firefighting operation and the flames were doused in an hour."
