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7 killed, over 60 injured in blaze at Mumbai high-rise; building had no firefighting system, says official

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October 6, 2023
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7 killed, over 60 injured in blaze at Mumbai high-rise; building had no firefighting system, says official
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Mumbai: Seven people, including two minors, were killed and more than 60 injured after a fire swept through a residential building in Mumbai’s Goregaon area in the early hours of Friday, a civic official said. Five of the injured are in critical condition.

Hours later, the city’s fire brigade chief said the building had no firefighting system.

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As many as 30 residents were rescued from the terrace and various floors of the seven-storey structure, he said.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde condoled the loss of life in the fire and announced an ex gratia of Rs 5 lakh for the kin of each of the deceased.  The CM said that those injured in the fire would be treated at government expense.

The blaze started around 3 am at ‘Jay Bhavani SRA building’ near Azad Maidan at Unnat Nagar in Goregaon West, said an official from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). It had a lot of old clothes on the ground floor, they said.

A total of 68 residents were rushed to various hospitals. While 42 were admitted to the civic-run HBT Trauma Care hospital at Jogeshwari and 15 to BMC-run Cooper Hospital at Juhu, 11 were taken to three private hospitals, civic officials said.

Of these, seven including two minors and as many women died – six at Trauma Care and one at Cooper. The condition of five others is critical. Nine took discharge against medical advice, they said.

Ravindra Ambulgekar, chief fire officer of the Mumbai Fire Brigade, told PTI, “The Jay Bhavani SRA building in Goregaon was old and no firefighting system was available there.”

According to Sudhakar Pujarey, an officer bearer of the housing society, they have two wings – a Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) building and a saleable portion (sold in the open market). The fire erupted in the SRA building, he said.

BMC Commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal said not a single death was due to burns. All the deaths occurred due to suffocation, he told mediapersons.

Before firefighters arrived at the scene, the blaze had spread across the ground floor and started rising. It completely gutted the old clothes, shops and two-wheelers on the ground floor, said fire officials.

It took nearly four hours for the fire brigade to extinguish the blaze. More than eight fire engines and other firefighting equipment were used in the operation, a fire official said.

Chahal said some people from a particular community were rehabilitated in the building. They primarily deal in old clothes. They had stored old clothes in the parking area of the building, he said.

“After the fire broke out, it spread faster because of it (clothes),” Chahal said.

The BMC chief said the fire erupted at 3.01 am and the fire engines reached the spot by 3.10 am. Initially, the fire had spread up to the second floor.

Among the injured are two kids from a family and they have suffered up to nine per cent burns. “If plastic surgery is done, the kids won’t have to live with the trauma for life. Hence we are shifting them to Kasturba Hospital, where we have specialised treatment of plastic surgery,” Chahal said.

Apart from announcing ex gratia for the deceased victims, CM Shinde wrote on X that he had instructed Mumbai city guardian minister Deepak Kesarkar and suburban district guardian minister Mangal Prabhat Lodha to visit the site of the blaze.

“The incident is unfortunate and I am in touch with the Mumbai civic commissioner,” said Shinde, who is in New Delhi.

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