Mumbai: Fire breaks out at residential building near Sassoon Dock in Colaba, woman injured

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A fire broke out at a residential building near Sassoon Dock in Colaba on Thursday morning, according to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).

The incident was reported at around 7:55 am at Kismat Building, located opposite Sassoon Dock on Shahid Bhagat Singh Marg. According to preliminary information shared by the MFB, the fire was reported in a room on the upper floor of the ground-plus-five-storey structure.

Fire confined to single room

Officials said the blaze was confined to electric wiring, electrical installations, wooden furniture, food items and curtains inside Room No. 2 on the fifth floor of the building. The affected area measured approximately 200x100 feet.

The Mumbai Fire Brigade, along with local police, BEST electricity staff, a 108 ambulance and BMC ward personnel, were deployed to the spot as part of the emergency response.

One person suffers minor burns

According to the BMC, a woman aged around 50 sustained minor burn injuries to her fingers during the incident. However, she refused hospitalisation after receiving initial assistance.

Firefighters brought the blaze under control and extinguished it by 8:12 am, officials said. The exact cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained.

Fire in BEST bus at Santacruz depot, no injuries

Meanwhile, a BEST bus caught fire at Santacruz depot in the early hours of Wednesday when it was being taken for refuelling after repairing a faulty clutch, officials said, adding that nobody was injured.

This is the third bus fire since the beginning of this week. Earlier, two parked buses of the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) undertaking were gutted in separate incidents at Pratiksha Nagar depot.

The latest incident occurred around 2.45 AM when the bus, belonging to the wet lease operator Mateshwari Bus Operations, was being taken for refuelling after repairing a clutch defect, a BEST spokesperson said.

"While the bus was running, a short circuit occurred in the driver's cabin, and a blaze broke out," she said.

The spokesperson said that Mateshwari staff used around 20 fire extinguishers to control the blaze before the fire brigade arrived at 3:10 AM and doused the blaze.

Nobody was injured in the incident.

BEST provides public bus service in Mumbai and neighbouring cities through a fleet of 2,700 buses, transporting more than 25 lakh people every day.