A massive fire broke out in the early hours of Wednesday at a garbage dumping ground in Thane city, prompting an immediate response from civic authorities. The incident occurred at the Tree Authority Department’s dumping site located near a sewage treatment plant in Kanhaiyya Nagar, Kopri, in Thane (East).

According to the Thane Municipal Corporation’s Disaster Management Cell, the alert was received at around 3:56 AM from the Kopri Fire Station. The fire quickly spread across heaps of waste material, leading to a large-scale blaze at the site.