The blaze erupted in one of the shops in the Shil-Phata locality in Mumbra around 8 am and spread to two other establishments
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Three shops were gutted in a fire in Thane district on Friday morning, and no one was hurt in the incident, a civic official said, reported news agency PTI.
The blaze erupted in one of the shops in the Shil-Phata locality in Mumbra around 8 am and spread to two other establishments, the official said.
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Local firefighters and disaster management personnel were pressed into service, and the fire was doused in an hour, said Yasin Tadvi, chief of the civic disaster management cell, reported PTI.
While no one was injured in the incident, three shops were gutted in fire in Thane district, he said, adding that the cause for the blaze is yet to be ascertained.
In another incident, a fire broke out at a factory manufacturing plastic products in Maharashtra's Thane district on April 19 afternoon, officials said, reported the PTI.
The officials said that no one was injured in the incident.
The blaze erupted around 3 pm at the factory in Kalam village on the Mumbai-Agra road in Shahapur taluka, a police official said.
The firefighting operations were underway, and water tankers were pressed into service, said an official with the district disaster management cell.
According to officials, smoke bellowed in the area, and the flames could be seen from a long distance.
The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained, they said.
Meanwhile, a major fire broke out at a godown in the Reay Road area of Mumbai on April 18.
There was no report of injury to anyone in the blaze, the civic body said.
The fire erupted at the Devidayal Compound in Darukhana locality on Reay Road at around 10.40 am, the BMC said.
"The fire was confined to a single storey godown," the civic body said.
Twelve fire engines and other fire brigade vehicles were rushed to the spot, the BMC said.
Local civic ward staff, Mumbai Police, Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) personnel and ambulance had also reached the spot.
The fire was extinguished at around 5:20 pm, the officials said.
The cause of the fire was yet to be known, they said.
(With inputs from PTI)
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