A fire broke out in two to four huts near Mala Garden in Pratiksha Nagar, Wadala, on Tuesday night, prompting a response from the Mumbai Fire Brigade, Mumbai Police, BEST, the 108 ambulance service and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation ward staff. No injuries were reported in the preliminary information available from the Mumbai Fire Brigade.
The fire brigade received information about the incident from the police control room at 10.51 pm. The call was subsequently classified as a Level-I fire incident at 11.15 pm, according to the report published by Mid-Day.
The affected huts are located in Pratiksha Nagar, a residential area in Mumbai’s Wadala neighbourhood. The initial assessment indicated that the fire involved between two and four huts. The report did not provide details about the cause of the fire, the extent of property damage or whether residents were evacuated.
The deployment involved several agencies. Fire brigade teams attended the incident, while Mumbai Police and BMC ward staff were mobilised to assist at the site. BEST and the 108 ambulance service were also part of the emergency response. The available information did not specify the number of fire engines deployed or the time at which the fire was brought under control.
The incident was reported amid other fire emergencies in the wider Mumbai Metropolitan Region. In Bhiwandi, a fire broke out at a scrap godown in the Lohoti Compound area during the early hours of Tuesday and spread to an adjacent powerloom factory, according to a civic official cited in the report. Local residents and workers moved machinery, raw cloth and other goods to safer locations, but the factory was reduced to ashes. Firefighters brought that blaze under control after intensive efforts.
Another fire was reported at a wood godown in Talavali, Navi Mumbai, at around 2 pm. The blaze was brought under control after one and a half hours. No casualties were reported in the Bhiwandi and Navi Mumbai incidents, according to the report.
The report also said that Thane Police registered 33 cases against people for bursting firecrackers in public places during Diwali, in violation of Bombay High Court directives and administrative orders. Deputy Commissioner of Police, Zone 3, Atul Zende, said police had launched a crackdown after several people were found violating safety and environmental norms in public areas.
The Thane district administration has banned the use of sky rockets and similar airborne firecrackers following multiple blazes linked to aerial fireworks on Sunday. Police said enforcement of safety and environmental regulations would continue in the Kalyan division. Further details about the cause, damage assessment and official follow-up in the Wadala hut fire were not available in the supplied report.
