A Thane fire involving garbage and scrap material stored inside a compound at Taryacha Pada on Kolshet Khadi Road was brought under control shortly after midnight on November 12, after fire brigade and disaster management teams responded to the incident.
The blaze was reported at 10.44 pm on Wednesday, November 11, in Kolshet, Thane West. Fire brigade personnel and disaster management officials reached the location after receiving information about the fire. The material was stored inside a compound in the area.
Disaster management officer Yasin Tadvi reached the site with fire brigade personnel and a jumbo water tanker. Staff from the disaster management cell also arrived with a pickup vehicle, while police personnel were present at the location.
The fire was completely extinguished at 12.20 am on Thursday, November 12, with the assistance of fire brigade personnel and disaster management staff. The report did not mention any casualties or provide an assessment of damage to nearby structures.
The incident came amid two other fire emergencies reported in Thane and south Mumbai. In a separate incident, a fire broke out during the early hours of Wednesday at a godown storing mandap decoration items in Kharegaon, in the Kalwa area of Thane city.
According to civic officials, emergency services received a call about that blaze at 2.02 am. The affected structure was a 25-feet by 20-feet shed used as a godown. The fire gutted wooden materials, carpets, decoration equipment and the shed structure. Firefighters and disaster management personnel reached the site and extinguished the blaze by 3.40 am.
Tadvi, who is the chief of the Regional Disaster Management Cell, said the cause of the godown fire was under investigation. No casualties were reported in that incident.
A third fire was reported at the official bungalow of Maharashtra Forest Minister Ganesh Naik in south Mumbai. Fire officials said the blaze began in an air-conditioning unit at Pawangad Bungalow, located opposite the state secretariat, Mantralaya, at 11.43 am on Wednesday.
Naik, who is also the BJP MLA from Airoli in neighbouring Navi Mumbai, was not present at the bungalow when the fire occurred. No injuries were reported. The fire brigade classified the incident as a Level I call, which is generally handled with the initial deployment of firefighting resources.
Fire brigade personnel took nearly an hour to douse the blaze and secure the bungalow, completing the operation at 12.42 pm. Officials had not determined the cause of the air-conditioning unit fire at the time of the report.
