20230528 4 flats gutted, gas cylinders explode in south Mumbai building fire
India May 28 2023 “Apartment houses” “Building”
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4 flats gutted, gas cylinders explode in south Mumbai building fire
Updated: 2023-05-28
MUMBAI: A fire broke out in a high-rise on Bhulabhai Desai Road in south Mumbai after 10pm on Saturday. While two people had to be rescued from the staircase, no one was injured. Four flats in the upmarket Breach Candy Apartments were gutted in in less than two hours. Two LPG cylinder explosions in the flats escalated the fire, a BMC official said, adding that the cause of the fire is still not known. The fire was brought under control around 12.30 am, BMC officials said.
The fire originated in a flat on the twelfth floor of the ground-plus-15 storey building near Breach Candy Hospital, and it spread to three other flats on the same floor.
“Around 15 residents from various intermediary floors were rescued by fire brigade personnel,” said a fire official.
The official said that the fire was brought under control. “We are now carrying out a search operation to check if anybody is trapped. Residents have been made to vacate the building for safety purpose,” the official said.
Smoke had engulfed the top floors of the building. An eyewitness said that the divider of the road opposite the gate of the building had to be removed, as it was causing a hindrance to the entry of fire-fighting vehicles into the building compound. While the fire brigade received the fire call around 10.30 pm, cooling operations began around 12.30 am, said officials.
The fire was confined to four flats on the 12th floor. The fire brigade declared it as a ‘level-2’ fire.
The fire brigade officials said they had to declare the fire as level 2 fire after the LPG cylinder blasts. Eyewitnesses took to social media and shared photos and videos of the blaze and called the visuals “scary”.
Web Source: The Times of India