Fire brigade officials admitted that organisers of the event had not complied with nearly 10 fire safety measures.
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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.
A huge portion of a road caved in on Wednesday morning in Mumbai's Chunabhatti area, trapping several vehicles parked there, officials said.
Among the victims were five children, one of them was a 3-month-old infant, police said.
Around eight to 10 people were also rescued from the building, they said.
The police and fire brigade were at the spot and the situation was under control.
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.
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.
Following the incident, some long distance trains, including Konark Express, Kanyakumari Express, Nandigram Express and Pragati Express were rescheduled.
It broke out around 1500 IST in the godown located off the LBS Marg, in Sion.
Two film sets, one of Rajshri Productions and another of director Luv Ranjan's new film, were gutted in the blaze.
A fire broke out in a four-storey commercial building in suburban Bandra in Mumbai on Saturday morning, but no casualties were reported.
Two fire brigade officers were seriously injured while as many went missing and were feared trapped under the debris.
A fire broke out at Oberoi Mall in suburban Goregaon on Wednesdau morning, fire brigade sources said. However, nobody was injured in the incident, they said.
A video showing a hapless Arun Tiwari holding onto the railing of the balcony of the flat on the 19th floor and dangling precariously before falling down went viral even as fire brigade vehicles rushed to the spot. He was taken to the civic-run KEM hospital but was declared dead.
The Army unit deployed in Ashti successfully evacuated 40 people with the help of an NDRF team and other agencies.
A large number of vehicles, including twelve autorickshaws, two taxis and two-wheelers, were completely gutted while two residential buildings also caught fire.
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.
Sixteen fire engines were deployed to douse the flames.
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.
When Zubair, 25, and his brother Muzammil, 13, headed to meet Zeenat Salmani, 23, a resident of the building, they would have never thought that it would be their last trip.
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.
Nobody was injured in the fire, which was reported at 7.54 pm, the official from Disaster Management Unit of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said.
A major fire on Friday broke out in a three-storeyed residential building near Byculla railway station injuring two persons but 20 other occupants were safely rescued, a Fire Brigade official said.
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The revamped Wankhede stadium, which recently came under the scanner of the fire department for not following safety norms, received a no-objection certificate (NOC) from the Mumbai Fire Brigade on Tuesday to stage World Cup matches.
Two persons were killed and four other injured after a slab of under construction monorail at Mumbai suburb Chembur collapsed on Friday evening.
Three tankers and a jumbo tanker have been pressed into service for dousing the blaze. No case of injury has been reported so far.\n\n
A fire broke out at a set in Goregaon Film city on Tuesday morning.
The third, fourth and fifth floors of the nine-storey building were the worst affected due to the blaze, Mumbai fire brigade chief P S Rahangdale told PTI on Tuesday.
A fire broke out on the sixth floor of the IncomeTaxBuilding in Marine Lines area in south Mumbai tonight but there were no report of casualties.
Fire broke out aboard two naval ships in Mumbai late on Tuesday night, fire brigade sources said. "We received a call shortly after midnight that fire broke out aboard two naval ships at the naval dockyard in South Mumbai," the sources told PTI.
Am assive fire engulfed the slum enclave of Behrampada in Bandra East, north west Mumbai, abutting the Bandra railway station.
Fire brigade officials said the fire broke out on the ninth floor of Mittal Towers.
A major fire broke out at the fourth floor of the Mantralaya building which houses the state secretariat in south Mumbai on Thursday afternoon, fire brigade sources said.
Six persons were killed and eight injured in a fire that gutted several hutments in Mumbai on Friday.
A fire broke out because of a suspected leakage in an oil pipeline passing through a land owned by the Mumbai Port Trust in Wadala in central Mumbai, but no one was injured.
No casualties had been reported among the residents of the area, while a fire brigade personnel was injured, the official said.
