Thane: Fire breaks out inside 26th-floor flat at Aashar Arize building in Kalwa; no injuries

A fire broke out inside a residential flat on the 26th floor of Aashar Arize Building in Kharegaon Kalwa Thane on Sunday evening November 8 No injuries were reported in the incidentThe fire was reported at around 805 pm in Room No 2603 of B Wing a 40storey residential building located behind Sahyadri School According to the fire brigade the blaze involved interior furniture inside the flat which was locked at the timeFire brought under control within an hourFollowing the alert fire brigade personnel rushed to the spot with one fire engine and a rescue vehicle Teams from the Thane Municipal Corporations Disaster Management Cell also arrived with a pickup vehicle The Disaster Response Force and Kalwa police were deployed at the site to assist with the operationWith the joint efforts of the fire brigade Disaster Management Cell and Disaster Response Force personnel the fire was completely extinguished by around 855 pmSituation under controlThe fire was confined to the interior furniture inside the locked flat and the situation was brought under control without any reported injuries50 persons rescued after fire in Thane highrise no casualtiesIn a separate incident as many as 50 persons were rescued after a major fire broke out at a 17storey residential building in Maharashtras Thane city officials said on MondayThe blaze erupted around 830 pm on Sunday the day of Diwali at the Carlyle building having 28 flats in the Raheja Garden complex in the citys Wagle Estate area they saidNo casualties were reported Thane Municipal Corporations TMC regional disaster management cell chief Yasin Tadvi saidMaharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde who is also the guardian minister of Thane visited the site to supervise the rescue operations and take stock of the situationThe fire spread from the 7th to 14th floors and the duct of the highrise tower triggering a major emergency response To combat the blaze and rescue the residents authorities mobilised multiple fire tenders two skylift fire engines water tankers and ambulancesFirefighters from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation BMC also joined the operations Advanced tactical measures including drones were used to precisely locate the source of the fire and locate occupants trapped on the upper floors he saidThe emergency responders later evacuated nearly 50 persons guiding trapped residents to safety via the buildings terrace and designated refuge areas the official saidThe blaze was brought under control by 230 am on Monday and cooling operations were underway The cause of the fire is being probed Tadvi saidThane Lok Sabha member Naresh Mhaske TMC Commissioner Saurabh Rao Collector Srikrishna Panchal and Mayor Sharmila Pimplolkar also visited the spot