Mumbai: Major fire at electronics goods showroom building in Bandra

A major fire broke out in a building housing an electronics goods showroom in the suburban Bandra area in the early hours of Tuesday with the NDRF also being called in for firefighting operations officials saidThere were no immediate reports of any injuries in the blaze they saidFollowing a request from the Mumbai Fire Brigade a team of the National Disaster Response Force NDRF was mobilised and reached the spot at 750 am a civic spokesperson saidA major fire broke out early Tuesday morning at a building housing an electronics goods showroom in Bandra West officials saidThe fire erupted around 410 am at the Croma showroom located in the basement of Link Square Mall a threestorey commercial complex on Linking Road The Mumbai Fire Brigade MFB received the first report at 411 amOfficials said the incident was initially classified as a Level I fire at 417 am escalated to Level II at 428 am and was declared a Level III fire mdash the highest severity mdash by 449 amThe blaze was largely confined to the basement of the showroom but thick smoke quickly spread throughout the entire building which includes three basement levels a ground floor and three upper floors severely hampering visibilityTwelve fire engines supported by other firefighting vehicles were dispatched to the scene to battle the flames Several agencies including the Mumbai Fire Brigade Mumbai Police Adani Electricity the Public Works Department PWD and local ward staff responded to the emergencySenior fire officials mdash including a Divisional Fire Officer DFO two Assistant Divisional Fire Officers ADFOs three Senior Station Officers Sr SOs and three Station Officers SOs mdash led the operation Resources deployed included 12 fire engines nine jumbo water tankers two breathing apparatus vans a rescue van and a water quick response vehicle A 108 emergency ambulance was also stationed at the site as a precautionary measureThe cause of the fire remains under investigationThis incident marks the second major earlymorning fire in Mumbai in just two days On Sunday a significant blaze broke out at a building housing the Enforcement Directorate ED office in the Ballard Estate areaThe fire brigade received a call about the blaze at the multistorey KaiserIHind building which houses the Enforcement Directorate ED office near the Grand Hotel on Currimbhoy Road around 231 am on SundayFire brigade teams rushed to the spot and began firefighting operations Around 330 am the fire was upgraded to LevelII which is generally considered a major fire the fire brigade control room confirmedA civic official said the fire was confined to the fourth floor of the fivestorey buildingThe official said eight fire engines six jumbo tankers one aerial water tower tender one breathing apparatus van one rescue van one quick response vehicle and an ambulance from the 108 service had been deployed to the spotatOptionskeyd0ddb8ef8f1a62a8cdd22fac27fc5ea7formatiframeheight90width728params