A Bhiwandi fire that began at a scrap godown early Tuesday spread to an adjacent powerloom factory, while separate warehouse and market fires were reported in Navi Mumbai and Thane over the following hours. No casualties or injuries were reported in any of the incidents, according to civic officials and fire authorities cited by Mid-Day.
The Bhiwandi blaze broke out at a scrap godown in the Lohoti Compound area of Bhiwandi in Thane district at about 2:03 am. The fire spread to a neighbouring powerloom factory, where residents and workers moved machinery, raw cloth and other goods to safer locations. The factory was ultimately gutted, the report said.
Firefighters carried out intensive operations to bring the flames under control. The supplied report did not specify the number of fire engines deployed or the extent of damage to the scrap godown and adjoining premises. The cause of the Bhiwandi fire was also not stated.
A separate fire was reported at a wood godown in Talavali, Navi Mumbai, at around 2 pm. Firefighters brought that blaze under control in approximately one and a half hours. No casualties were reported in the Navi Mumbai incident.
In Thane city, a fire broke out at a godown storing mandap decoration material in a 25-by-20-foot shed in Kharegaon, in the Kalwa area, during the early hours of Wednesday. Yasin Tadvi, chief of the Regional Disaster Management Cell, said emergency services received the call at about 2:02 am. The fire destroyed wooden material, carpets, decoration equipment and the shed structure.
Firefighters and disaster-management personnel reached the location and extinguished the blaze by 3:40 am. Tadvi said the cause of the fire was under investigation. No casualties were reported in the Thane godown fire.
Another incident was reported at the Maharashtra Nagar vegetable market in Kisan Nagar No. 1, Wagle Estate, Thane West, early Wednesday. Three handcarts were damaged, including two used for selling vegetables and one used for selling Diwali goods. The Wagle Fire Station received the alert at about 5:55 am and brought the fire under control by 6:06 am using one fire engine.
Employees of the electricity distribution company and personnel from Srinagar Police Station were also present at the market site. The fire was completely extinguished, and no injuries were reported.
The incidents affected different types of premises, including scrap, powerloom, wood and event-decoration storage facilities, as well as informal market infrastructure. The report did not establish a common cause or connection between the fires. Investigations into at least the Kharegaon godown blaze were continuing, while officials had not provided further details on the causes of the other incidents.
