A fire broke out in an air-conditioning unit at Maharashtra Forest Minister Ganesh Naik’s bungalow near Mantralaya in south Mumbai on Wednesday, but was contained by the Mumbai Fire Brigade without any reported injuries.
The blaze was reported at about 11.43 am at Pawangad Bungalow, located inside Amdar Niwas opposite the Mantralaya bus stop in Churchgate. The Mumbai Fire Brigade classified the incident as a Level-I fire after its team reached the location.
Fire officials received information about the incident and reached the bungalow shortly afterwards. The fire was declared a Level-I call at 11.55 am, indicating that the initial response was handled with the first deployment of firefighting resources. Firefighting operations continued until 12.42 pm, when the flames were brought under control and extinguished.
No injuries were reported in the incident, according to fire officials cited by Mid-Day. The cause of the blaze had not been established at the time of reporting. The fire was confined to the air-conditioning unit, with no further details available about damage to the bungalow or surrounding premises.
The location places the incident within a high-activity administrative area, opposite a major bus stop and close to Mantralaya. Amdar Niwas houses residences for legislators and is situated in a part of south Mumbai that experiences regular movement of government employees, visitors, commuters and emergency services.
The response comes amid several fire incidents reported across the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. A separate fire had broken out in two to four huts at Pratiksha Nagar near Mala Garden in Wadala on Tuesday night, while fires were also reported at a scrap godown in Bhiwandi and a wood godown in Talavali, Navi Mumbai. The incidents were reported separately and no casualties were reported in those cases based on preliminary information.
For the Churchgate incident, the immediate response has ended with the fire extinguished. Officials had not announced the cause of the air-conditioning unit failure or any further investigation findings by the time of publication.
