A level-four fire gutted down Kothari Mansion, a century-old Grade II Heritage structure, opposite the Government Post Office (GPO) early on Saturday morning in Fort. The fire, locals said, started on the 3rd floor of the empty building on the intervening night of Saturday. What looked like a minor fire soon escalated to the fourth floor before gutting the lower second floor. Two fire fighters were injured as a portion of the building collapsed during the fire fighting process.

The fire broke around 3.30 in the morning. "We received a distress call from somebody in the locality at 4.16am. We immediately rushed our vehicles to the spot," said a fire official. Looking at the intensity of the fire, engines and assistance was further called down from Fort, Nariman Point, Gowalia Tank, Mazgaon, Mandovi and Colaba fire stations. It took 12 hours of fire fighting to control the fire.