Firefighters try to douse a fire which broke out at Scindia House building on Friday. Mumbai: Six people were rescued in a major fire that broke out at the income tax department office at Scindia House, Ballard Pier in south Mumbai on Friday evening. The fire was brought under control in six hours, TYPE-4B SEMI RIGID PVC HOSE but the cooling operations went on till late in the night.According to fire officials, the fire erupted in the income tax office, which is situated on the third floor of Scindia House, at about 4.30 pm. As many as 16 fire engines were pressed into operation to douse the fire.Six people, who were trapped in the building, were rescued by firemen. They suffered suffocation problems and were rushed to St George Hospital for treatment. Five of them could be identified as Ganesh Solanki (46),  Nilesh Kulkarni (40), Vinod Dube (40), Ajit Kadam (35) and Ramesh Dupare (50). One fireman - Jagdish Bachal - also suffered injuries during the fire fighting operation.“The cause of the fire is not known yet and will be found out only after detailed investigation,” a fire brigade official said. “But it started from the canteen of the income tax office. Since there was no adequate ventilation. Hence it spread rapidly to upper floors,” he added.The Scindia House building also houses the office of the Debt Recovery Tribunal.

Fire fighting operations were on for three days and no casualties were reported. Mumbai: Fire-fighting operation at the fuel tank farm of the Mumbai Port Trust on Butcher Island off Mumbai&TYPE-4B SEMI RIGID PVC HOSE Factory39;s coast was "completed successfully" on Monday morning, three days after the blaze broke out in a high-speed diesel tank, a top official said.The island, officially known as Jawahar Dweep, houses a marine oil terminal of the Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT)."Operation at Jawahar Dweep island is completed successfully," said Sanjay Bhatia, MbPT chairman.Multiple agencies such as the MbPT, oil major BPCL (which owns the tank that caught fire), ONGC, state planning agency CIDCO and fire services of Maharashtra government carried out a joint operation to contain the fire, he said.Prima facie a lightning strike on Friday evening – when Mumbai and surrounding areas received thundershowers -- triggered the fire, Bhatia said.It will take another few hours for smoldering inside the tank to stop, he said.Regular operations on the island will resume only after a thorough inspection of pipelines and other infrastructure, he said.Mumbai fire brigade chief P S Rahangdale, who supervised the operation on behalf of the Mumbai fire brigade, said, "At present controlled-burning and extinguishing operation is in process. Very little high-speed diesel is left in the tank."Tank number 13 of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) which caught fire had collapsed inwards a little, BPCL executive director Manohar Rao had said on Friday.BPCL has eight tanks on Butcher Island. The fire was limited to only one tank.No # casualty was reported during the mishap. Crude oil and other commodities are offloaded at the Jawahar Dweep anchorage and stored in tanks before being transported to nearby refineries through underwater pipelines.Rao had said the incident will not cause shortage of high-speed diesel in the market.

Mumbai: A case has been registered against the fire officer of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Tarapur, for failing to send a fire engine to Boisar MIDC where a fire broke out Thursday fire blanket with silica gel painting painting Suppliers night. A case has been filed under sections 56 and 57 of the Disaster Management Act, 2005. The deceased have been identified as Pintu Kumar Gautam, Alok Nath and Janu Adaria. Borkar, should have sent fire engines to the spot to help douse the flames.”The guardian minister of Palghar, Vishnu Sawara, has ordered an inquiry into the mishap and assured that the people responsible for the fire will be taken to task. Shutters, windowpanes and a computer were destroyed on the premises of the companies in the vicinity. Mr Borkar has been booked under sections 56 and 57 of the Disaster Management Act, 2005.Prakash Birajdar, senior inspector, MIDC police station, Boisar, said, “The district collector Prashant Narnaware has submitted a complaint against Mr Borkar of Tarapore fire station.The MIDC police is probing the accident and trying to locate the owners of the factories. According to Boisar MIDC police, the fire officer, S.e.Nine fire engines were rushed to spot to douse the fire. An accidental death report (ADR) has been filed..S.38pm on Thursday, an explosion caused a fire to break out at Novaphone chemical factory in the Boisar MIDC area, killing three workers and injuring 15 others. Unimax, Prachi, Arti, Bharat Rasayan and Darbari. The fire spread to five other factories i. It is learned that the fire was caused by three blasts in the factory that were followed by a reactor explosion which was heard up to 8 to 10 kilometre from the site. Disaster management officers and the police control room repeatedly asked him to send fire engines but he denied, saying he could not send them without asking his seniors. So much so that it took nine fire engines to bring the inferno under control after which, cooling operations were carried out.