Thane: Doors of two flats gutted in fire at city building; no injuries reported

In a fire that broke out in a multistorey building in Thane the doors of two flats were gutted The blaze erupted early on Tuesday in a sixstorey building in which the main doors of the flat were gutted an official told PTIThe official further told the news agency that no one was hurtYasin Tadvi chief of the Thane Municipal Corporations Regional Disaster Management Cell RDMC told PTI that the blaze erupted in the building around 330 am and added that it is located in Oswal Park on Pokhran Road in the Majiwada area of the cityA report in the news agency quoted Tadvi as saying The fire destroyed the main doors of two flats on the second floor and also affected the internet and CCTV cables in the passages on the second and third floors Timely action by the firefighters and the RDMC personnel prevented the fire from spreading furtherHe further said that the fire was brought under control by 355 am and that they are currently conducting a probe to determine the cause of the fireIn another incident on Sunday a fire had broken out in Vikhrolis Dr Ambedkar Hospital however no casualties or injuries were reported in the incident The Mumbai Fire Brigade officials said that the patients were evacuated safely when the blaze erupted and some were shifted to nearby Rajawadi HospitalThe officials said that the fire started around 147 am and was doused by 225 amldquoThe fire was confined to the main cable of the air suction motor in the ICU on the ground floor plus the upper threefloored hospital building As a precautionary measure six patients of the ICU Ward were shifted to a nearby casualty ward in the presence of doctorsrdquo said the Disaster Management Unit of BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation BMC saidThere were as many as six patients in the Intensive Care Unit at the time of the incident The patients were identified as Shivaji Dhele 65 Vimal Tiwari 60 Yashodabai Rathod 58 Kantaprasad Nirmal 75 Arun Haribhagat 64 and Sushmita Ghokshe 23On Saturday noon a 22storeyed building in Malad reported an incident of fire it was a Slum Rehabilitation Authority building in the Kurar village area Five fire tenders were sent to the spot to bring the fire under control