18 April,2023 12:00 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
At around 8:30 am, authorities reported that the fire has been successfully extinguished. Pic/Sayyed Sameer Abedi
A fire broke out at Kurla Scrap Corporation, near Mayakkam Temple in Mandala during the wee hours on Tuesday, April 18.
According to information received from Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, the fire incident was reported at around 3 am.
The release by BMC mentioned that the fire was confined in wooden scrap godown and that the fire was covered from all sides.
So far, no casualties are reported in the incident.
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At around 8:30 am, authorities reported that the fire has been successfully extinguished.
"At least 12 fire engines with water tankers and other fire-fighting vehicles were rushed to the spot and efforts were on to douse the blaze that was confined to the wooden scrap godown," news agency PTI quoted a civic official as saying.
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Earlier on Monday, in connection to a separate incident, regional disaster management cell (RDMC) said in a statement that two scrap godowns were destroyed in a fire in Maharashtra's Thane district on Monday morning.
No one was injured in the blaze which erupted at around 6 am in Shilphata area on Mumbra-Panvel road, Thane Municipal Corporation's regional disaster management cell (RDMC) chief Avinash Sawant said.
