Mumbai: A fire broke out in the electric duct of a ground-plus-22-storey building near flu police station around 8am on Monday. There were no injuries.
The blaze started in the sixth-floor electric duct area and spread to the upper floors of Chistiya Palace building opposite BSNL officers’ quarters. However, it was confined to the electric wiring, electric installations and the passage area.Around 29 residents were safely moved to the refuge area on the eighth and 15th floors through the staircase.
According to fire brigade officials, the blaze originated due to a short-circuit in the electric duct opposite the lift on the sixth floor.
“Fire spread to the upper floors through the electric duct right till the 12th storey and the smoke spread everywhere. However, no damage was caused to the flats in the building, only the passage area and ducts were affected. Some of the residents had come down while we escorted about 14 residents to the eighth-floor refuge area and 15 residents were escorted to the 15th-floor refuge area as a precaution. These residents lived in the intermediary floors. The building’s firefighting system was functional. We used water from the system for our firefighting operations too and extinguished the blaze by 9.50pm,” said a fire brigade official. “The building has not yet received an OC (occupation certificate) and is in the possession of the builder. We had issued a notice to the building for not complying with fire safety norms earlier,” said a fire official.
“There are a total of 28 flats in the building, which has two podiums for parking. Some of the floors have only one flat while some have two. Not all flats were occupied, but the society is yet to be formed and the building is being maintained by the builder,” said a person who was coordinating with fire officials and said he was employed by the builder.
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The blaze started in the sixth-floor electric duct area and spread to the upper floors of Chistiya Palace building opposite BSNL officers’ quarters. However, it was confined to the electric wiring, electric installations and the passage area.Around 29 residents were safely moved to the refuge area on the eighth and 15th floors through the staircase.
According to fire brigade officials, the blaze originated due to a short-circuit in the electric duct opposite the lift on the sixth floor.
“Fire spread to the upper floors through the electric duct right till the 12th storey and the smoke spread everywhere. However, no damage was caused to the flats in the building, only the passage area and ducts were affected. Some of the residents had come down while we escorted about 14 residents to the eighth-floor refuge area and 15 residents were escorted to the 15th-floor refuge area as a precaution. These residents lived in the intermediary floors. The building’s firefighting system was functional. We used water from the system for our firefighting operations too and extinguished the blaze by 9.50pm,” said a fire brigade official. “The building has not yet received an OC (occupation certificate) and is in the possession of the builder. We had issued a notice to the building for not complying with fire safety norms earlier,” said a fire official.
“There are a total of 28 flats in the building, which has two podiums for parking. Some of the floors have only one flat while some have two. Not all flats were occupied, but the society is yet to be formed and the building is being maintained by the builder,” said a person who was coordinating with fire officials and said he was employed by the builder.
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