Eight people were rescued from the seven-storey Jagruti Society in Mulund West after a fire broke out in the electric meter cabin on the ground floor. Ten people have been admitted to the civic-run M T Agarwal hospital, including a four-year-old boy. According to the doctor, all patients are in stable condition. The fire did not spread because residents threw sand on the fire, averting a major disaster.

The building watchman Bhima Singh first noticed an electric spark in the meter cabin and started shouting to alert the residents. “I heard his cries first as I live on the first floor,” said Mangesh Ziman. “I came down and saw the fire in the meter room. I called the disaster control room of BMC’s T ward. The other residents and I then started throwing sand on the fire,” Ziman added.