The Army unit deployed in Ashti successfully evacuated 40 people with the help of an NDRF team and other agencies.
The India Meteorological Department issued an orange alert of heavy rains for Mumbai for Wednesday, and predicted the intensity of rainfall in the metropolis will go down from Thursday.
Seven people, including two minors, were killed and over 40 injured after a fire swept through a residential building in Mumbai's Goregaon area in the early hours of Friday, a civic official said. Five of the injured are in a critical condition.
A major fire broke out on the sets of TV serial Gum Hai Kisikey Pyaar Meiin in Film City, Mumbai, on Friday afternoon, an official of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said.
A major fire broke out on Monday at the Yara market in South Mumbai, fire brigade officials said.
P S Rahangdale, the chief of the Mumbai fire brigade, said an alert call was received by the department around 2.22 pm and fire fighters reached the spot within five minutes.
"The blaze started on the 10th floor of the building, Sargam Society (G+16), located near Ganesh Garden in Tilak Nagar.
The fire brigade received a call about the blaze at the British-era market around 6.15 pm, an official of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.
A major fire broke out on Thursday in a building at the high-security naval dockyard in Mumbai, fire brigade officials said.
The blaze erupted in White House building located on Dhanji Street near the famous Mumbadevi temple around 1.30 am and one man suffered a minor burn injury in the incident, they said.
Heavy rains lashed several parts of Maharashtra, including Mumbai, on Monday, resulting in one death and the rescue of 48 people from inundated areas. The state received widespread rainfall, with Pune, Satara, Solapur, Raigad, and the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) experiencing significant precipitation. Mumbai recorded 135.4 mm of rainfall in the past 24 hours, leading to waterlogging and power outages in some areas. The India Meteorological Department has predicted more rain in Mumbai over the next 24 hours, accompanied by thunderstorms and strong winds.
The incident occurred at Juhu Koliwada in the western suburbs, where a group of five boys, in the age group of 12 to 16 years, ventured into the sea around 5.30 pm.
Two persons were rescued after the incident that occurred at 4.50 am in Shahbaz village, they said, adding that before the building collapsed, the authorities managed to evacuate 52 residents.
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This is probably one of the longest fire-fighting operations in Mumbai in recent times.
Five people have received burn injuries and are admitted in Holy Spirit hospital.
The fire erupted in a first-floor flat of Veena Santur Cooperative Housing Society at around 12:30 pm and spread to the electric wiring and installations on that floor, according to officials.
The fire was brought under control after three hours, a Mumbai Fire Brigade official said, adding that cooling operations were underway.
Four persons were killed and nine others injured in a fire in an industrial area in suburban Mumbai, fire brigade officials said on Friday.
The fire erupted on the 19th floor of the One Avighna Park building on Currey Road shortly before noon, the official said, adding search and rescue operations are underway.
Deepika was not inside the 33-storey Beaumonde building in Prabhadevi area where the blaze emanated from the top floor, according to fire department officials and sources close to the actress.
The fire broke out in a flat on the 20th floor.
The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and personnel of the civic body's fire brigade rescued the two persons and carrying out the extricate the others.
The blaze erupted at the furniture market situated on Relief Road in Jogeshwari, fire brigade sources said.
A huge portion of a road caved in on Wednesday morning in Mumbai's Chunabhatti area, trapping several vehicles parked there, officials said.
The blast was so strong that it was heard in nearby villages. The fire and smoke could be seen from a distance.
The building did not have the mandatory Occupation Certificate granted by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, but it was already occupied by around 58 flat owners, according to the civic body.
The operation went on for 66 hours after a giant 120 feet x 120 feet hoarding collapsed on a petrol pump in the Chheda Nagar area during gusty winds on Monday evening, the official said.
A major fire broke out at a slum in suburban Bandra in Mumbai on Tuesday night, fire brigade officials said.
'In the last six years, there have been 29,140 fire incidents in Mumbai in which 300 people have died and 925 people have been injured.' 'So, at least 10 to 12 fire accidents take place in Mumbai every day.'
A fire broke out at a building in Ballard Pier area of south Mumbai Wednesday morning, fire brigade sources said.
The fire broke out in the basement of the hotel, an official said.
Under-construction warship 'Visakhapatnam' caught fire at 5.44 pm. The blaze erupted on the second deck of the ship.
The fire broke out around 5.15 am in Janata Market located near the Chembur railway station in eastern suburbs, a fire brigade official said.
Fire brigade officials admitted that organisers of the event had not complied with nearly 10 fire safety measures.
A major fire broke out at the set of Adipurush, a film starring actors Prabhas and Saif Ali Khan, in suburban Goregaon on Tuesday afternoon.
Two film sets, one of Rajshri Productions and another of director Luv Ranjan's new film, were gutted in the blaze.
Around eight to 10 people were also rescued from the building, they said.
Among the victims were five children, one of them was a 3-month-old infant, police said.
The police and fire brigade were at the spot and the situation was under control.
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