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A Huge fire blazed through the Ready Money Mansion at Hutatma Chowk, Fort, around midnight today.
The fire started in a coaching class on the first floor. The five-storey building is a commercial heritage building owned by the Jehangir family, who also own the Jehangir Art Gallery at Kala Ghoda.
The late hour meant the offices in the building were closed. This translated into no casualties. But the fire has resulted in huge monetary losses.
"I have made a loss of more than 2 lakh as all my mobile handsets were destroyed in the fire.
If the landlord would have renovated the building, the old wires would not have caused such a huge fire," said Imran Penwala, owner of a mobile shop in the building.
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All Fired Up: It took about two hours to control the fire at Ready Money Mansion at Hutatma Chowk. |
Another shop owner echoed Penwala's sentiments and added, "Thank God my shop was on the third floor or else I would have faced a huge problem. We are advocates and we have many important papers in the offices."
Though the cause of the fire has not been officially revealed, tenants believe it was a short circuit. "More than 10 tankers are being used for the operation," said the official.
The fire was restricted to the ground and first floors, and was put out within two hours.
Residents of Tardeo and Mumbai Central will not get their morning water supply today.
The BMC enforced the cut following a water pipeline burst at Nanachowk yesterday evening, after a contractor working on skywalk project accidentally axed the pipeline.
The civic body will write a letter to the MSRDC, asking them to warn their contractors to be more careful. The water supply will be restored by today afternoon.
There was a water pipeline burst at Aarey Milk Colony on Saturday night, which has not been repaired yet.
Did You Know?
The city has 33 fire stations and they have been asked to dig their own bore wells at the earliest.
The fire department has proposed the idea of buying water mist fire extinguishers, as they are better equipped to fight fire and require 80 per cent less water than normal fire-fighting equipment. | 
