Four people were injured, including one who suffered 80 per cent burns, after a Level-II fire broke out at a scrap material godown in Abdu Rashid Compound on Khairani Road, Sakinaka, in Andheri East, Mumbai, on Tuesday evening.
The Mumbai Fire Brigade received the incident report at 6.18 pm and declared it a Level-II fire at 6.37 pm. Fire brigade personnel, police, Adani staff, a 108 ambulance and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation ward staff were mobilised to respond to the blaze.
The injured were identified as Taufiq Shadil Qureshi, 20, who suffered 80 per cent burns; Jahid Abidulla Qureshi, 20, and Kamal Jalauddin Shah, 47, who each sustained 40 per cent burns; and Lalchand Ramlakhan Gautam, 40, who suffered 10 per cent burns. According to information received from Rajawadi Hospital, all four were undergoing treatment.
The incident took place inside a scrap material godown in an industrial and commercial area where emergency access, storage conditions and the presence of combustible material can affect firefighting operations. The available information does not establish what caused the fire or whether any safety violation was involved.
The Mumbai Fire Brigade and other agencies were deployed at the site as emergency services worked to bring the situation under control. Further details about the fire’s cause and the injured people’s condition were awaited.
The Sakinaka incident was one of several fire-related emergencies reported in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region on Tuesday. A Level-I fire was reported earlier at Amar Sons Store on Bhulabhai Desai Road near Breach Candy Hospital in Mahalaxmi. The Mumbai Fire Brigade received that report at about 8.01 am and declared it a Level-I fire call at 8.20 am. No injuries were reported in the latest update.
The Mahalaxmi response involved the Mumbai Fire Brigade, police, the Public Works Department, 108 ambulance services, BEST and BMC ward staff. A separate minor fire was also reported in the electrical fuse board of an empty Tata truck near Mumbra Bridge at Y Junction in Mumbra, Thane, at 2.12 am. Firefighters from Shil Fire Station extinguished the blaze with assistance from local residents, and no injuries were reported.
For the Sakinaka fire, authorities had yet to release further details on the cause of the incident or provide an updated medical bulletin on the four injured people.
