A 64-year-old man was injured after a fire broke out in a seventh-floor flat at Hans Vallabh building on Ram Mandir Road in Andheri West on Monday morning, with the resident hospitalised after suffering suffocation, according to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s Mumbai Fire Brigade control room.
The fire was reported at around 9.05 am in Room No. 701 of the stilt-plus-eight-storey residential building. The blaze was confined to the flat, covering an estimated area of between 500 and 800 square feet, civic officials said.
The injured resident was identified as Mahesh Mistree. He was admitted to the intensive care unit of Babasaheb Gawde Charitable Hospital in Vile Parle East for observation. His condition was reported to be stable.
The fire damaged electrical wiring and installations, a bed, household articles, a split air conditioner, wooden furniture and documents inside the flat. The available information did not specify the cause of the fire.
The incident comes after three separate fires were reported at locations across Mumbai on Diwali night, although no casualties were reported in those incidents, civic officials said. The incidents involved a chawl and adjoining shops in Dongri, a garage on Marol Military Road in Andheri and a commercial building in Vidyavihar.
The Dongri fire at Haji Kasam Chawl row tenement on Dr Maheshwari Road was reported at around 10 pm on Sunday. It was initially classified as a Level I fire before being upgraded to Level II. The blaze spread through several shops and huts and affected electrical wiring, wooden furniture, LPG cylinders, chemical drums and tarpaulin sheets. Firefighters brought it under control at 7.23 am on Monday after more than nine hours of operations.
A second Level II fire was reported at a garage on Marol Military Road near a school at 10.51 pm on Sunday. It was extinguished at 3.50 am after nearly five hours. The third fire broke out at Skyline Vida, a 10-storey commercial building near Jolly Gymkhana in Vidyavihar, at 11.56 pm. The blaze spread from the seventh to the 10th floor and was brought under control at 5.55 am after nearly six hours.
The BMC Mumbai Fire Brigade’s account of the Andheri incident records the resident’s hospitalisation and the damage inside the flat. Further details on the cause of the fire and any additional safety action were not provided in the supplied report.
