Mumbai: Fire breaks out at building in Jogeshwari, no injuries reported

A major fire erupted at a 14storey commercial building in Mumbais Jogeshwari area on Thursday morning the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation BMC said No injuries have been reported so farThe fire broke out at the JNS Business Center on S V Road Behrampada near Gandhi School in Jogeshwari West According to the Mumbai Fire Brigade MFB the blaze first reported at 1051 am has been confined to the 9th 10th 11th and 12th floors with flames visible through the buildings glass facadeThe MFB escalated the response rapidly raising the alert from LevelI at 1046 am to LevelII at 1048 am and then to LevelIII at 1054 am Rescue operations are ongoing with fire personnel using breathing apparatus BA and conducting ventilation procedures to assist people trapped insideA large number of fire and rescue units have been deployed including fire engines a fire tender a mobile water tanker a quick response vehicle SCBA units jet tenders aerial work tower tenders aerial ladders turntable ladders hydraulic platforms and a command post 108 Ambulance services are also on the scene The operation is being overseen by the Chief Fire Officer CFO along with Deputy CFOs Divisional Fire Officers Assistant DFOs senior station officers and station officersBlaze erupts in Malad residential building firefighter man suffer minor injuriesIn another incident a fire broke out in a residential building in Mumbais western suburb of Malad West on Wednesday injuring a resident and a firefighter who was involved in the operation to douse it officials saidThe fire brigade received a call at 506 am about a blaze at the sevenstorey Bhumi Classic near Inorbit Mall on the Link Road a civic official saidThe fire had spread to multiple closed flats on the sixth and seventh floors of the building he saidMultiple fire engines were sent to the spot and the fire was put out after about two hours the official saidOne Shubham Agotaria 24 suffered an injury on his left hand He was treated at Lifeline Hospital in the area before being discharged the official saidA senior station officer was taken to Balasaheb Thackeray Trauma Care Hospital Jogeshwari East after he suffered a minor injury during the firefighting operationThe exact cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained the official saidThere was another fire in a residential building in the Gorai area in Borivali East around noon the official saidThere has been no report of any injury to anyone he said adding that firefighting was underway at the spotFire erupts at cotton godown in Thane no casualty reportedMeanwhile a major fire broke out at a cotton godown in Maharashtras Thane district on Wednesday morning officials saidThere was no report of any casualty so far they saidThe blaze was reported around 6 am at the godown located at Rahnal village in Bhiwandi town Thick plumes of smoke were seen rising from the warehouseMultiple fire engines from the Bhiwandi Nizampur Municipal Corporation were rushed to the spot and firefighting was currently underway the civic bodys disaster control cell chief Saquib Kharbe saidThe cause of the blaze was yet to be ascertainedWith inputs from PTI