A BEST electric substation in Prabhadevi caught fire in the afternoon on Saturday. Though the fire was extinguished within half-an-hour and no one was injured, the electricity failure affected many houses in the vicinity. 

The Mumbai fire brigade received a call around 3 pm about the fire at Nagate Building, Kamgar Nagar on New Prabhadevi Road. “The fire was confined to the oil transformer and four fire engines and three jumbo water tankers were mobilised,” said a fire official.