Woman firefighter among four injured in fire at Dongri high-rise

“Around 12.40 pm, we heard a large detonation from the precocious floors and rushed retired of the building. While we were escaping, the compressors of the air-conditioning units successful people’s homes besides kept exploding, resulting successful further scare,” said Altaaf Iqbal Sheikh, a nonmigratory of the building, who managed to flight on with 5 different members of his family, successful the nick of time. While residents similar Sheikh managed to flight done the stairs, trapped residents who reside connected the precocious floors rushed to the terrace.

As the gathering was located wrong the constrictive lanes of Dongri, occurrence engines faced challenges to enter, erstwhile section residents helped. The Mumbai Fire Brigade (MFB) deployed 4 occurrence engines on with 3 jumbo tankers for the operation. While the occurrence broke retired connected the 15th floor, civic officials said that it besides dispersed to the 10th, 13th and 18th floors of the high-rise.

During the rescue operation, a pistillate firefighter attached to Mandavi occurrence presumption sustained injuries connected her close shoulder, pursuing which she was taken to the civic-run JJ infirmary for treatment. The firefighter, identified arsenic Anjali Amol Jamdade (35), is stable, sources said.

Meanwhile, 3 residents of the gathering — Nasir Muni Ansari (49), Samin Nasir Ansari (44) and Sana Ansari (32) — besides sustained burns successful the incident. While Nasir suffered 15 per cent burns and was admitted to JJ Hospital, portion Samin sustained 22 per cent burns and was taken to Masina Hospital. Sana, meanwhile, was taken to Noor hospital.

The occurrence was extinguished by 5 pm.

Lareb Khan, a Dongri resident, alleged, “The 15th level is expected to beryllium a refuge country but they person built a level here. Similarly, adjacent the little floors that are ideally expected to cater arsenic parking spaces person been converted into residential flats.”

Speaking to The Indian Express, Amin Patel, Congress MLA from Mumbadevi, who was astatine the site, said that the gathering was astir 10-12 years old.

“I person instructed the Chief Fire Officer to behaviour an enquiry to cheque whether the refuge country and the parking spaces was occupied, and whether the occurrence warring strategy was operational. For now, energy successful the gathering arsenic good arsenic adjacent areas has been chopped disconnected arsenic a precautionary measure,” Patel told The Indian Express.

Shiv Sena person Shaina NC said, “It is bittersweet to cognize that people’s lives are not valued since determination was nary parking space, refuge country oregon an exigency exit successful the building, arsenic per our knowledge. We would similar an contiguous enquiry arsenic determination was nary fire-fighting installation disposable and due to the fact that of amerciable constructions, the lives of radical were astatine stake.”

The incidental came on the heels of different occurrence that broke retired wrong a ground-plus-seven storey operation successful Andheri West, aboriginal Wednesday. No injuries were reported successful the blaze, which was doused by 9 am.