Mumbai, Nov 9 Three major fires broke out at separate locations in Mumbai on Diwali night, damaging several huts, shops, a commercial building and a garage, civic officials said on Monday.
No casualties were reported in any of the incidents, they said, adding that firefighters took more than nine hours to extinguish the blaze in the Dongri area.
The fire at Haji Kasam Chawl (row tenement) on Dr Maheshwari Road in Dongri was reported around 10 pm on Sunday. It was initially classified as a Level-I fire and later upgraded to Level-II.
A Level-I fire is generally handled with the initial deployment of firefighting resources, while a Level-II blaze requires additional personnel and equipment.
Several shops and huts were engulfed in the blaze, which spread to electric wiring and installations, wooden furniture, LPG cylinders, chemical drums and tarpaulin sheets, a civic official said.
Firefighters took more than nine hours to bring it under control at 7.23 am on Monday, the official said.
Another Level-II fire was reported at a garage on Marol Military Road near a school in Andheri at 10.51 pm on Sunday. It was extinguished at 3.50 am on Monday, after nearly five hours of hectic operations, the official said.
The third fire broke out at Skyline Vida, a 10-storey commercial building near Jolly Gymkhana in Vidyavihar, at 11.56 pm on Sunday.
The blaze spread from the 7th to the 10th floor. The fire brigade declared it a Level-II fire at 12.52 am on Monday and extinguished it at 5.55 am, after nearly six hours, the official said.
(PTI News)
