Mumbai, Sep 25 Ten persons were rescued from a four-storey building after a fire broke out in an electricity meter cabin and two shops in south Mumbai’s congested Bhuleshwar area on Friday, officials said.
The blaze, which erupted around 1.15 pm in Bhairumal House, a ground-plus-four-storey building near Mumbadevi Temple, was confined to electric wiring, electrical installations, a common meter cabin, a wooden staircase and electric cables in the passage on the ground floor, they said.
Smoke had entered some shops on the ground floor, following which fire brigade personnel opened the locked premises using keys, an official said.
While seven persons stranded on the third floor were brought down safely through the staircase by fire brigade personnel, three men on the third floor panicked and moved to a parapet wall on the fourth floor of adjoining ADN building, he said.
These three men were also rescued with the help of an aerial ladder platform, he added.
No one was hurt in the blaze, which was extinguished at 2.45 pm with the help of four fire tenders after BEST personnel disconnected power supply, the official said.
Personnel from the Mumbai Fire Brigade, local police, 108 ambulance services, and municipal ward staff took part in the operation to douse the fire. The cause of the fire was being ascertained, he informed.
(PTI News)
