Fire on seventeenth floor of Mumbai’s Regal Tower in Walkeshwar, no casualties reported

Ten fire tenders have rushed to the spot to help douse the flames.

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A fire broke out in Mumbai on Monday on the 17th floor of Regal Tower in Mumbai’s Walkeshwar area. Ten fire tenders were rushed to the spot to help douse the flames. The fire was reported as being a level 2 one. The building, exlusive of the ground floor, is 32 floors high.

“Our control room received a call at 4.17 pm. Our team reached the high-rise, Regal Tower, at 4.26 pm and is busy dousing the fire,” a fire brigade official said. “The fire broke out in a duplex flat on the 17th and 18th floors,” the official added said.

Fire Brigade chief P S Rahangdale said, “The fire is confined to a residential flat on 17th and 18th floors of this ground-plus-31 storey building. Fire-fighting and rescue operation is in progress.”

Luckily, the family residing in the flat where the fire broke out was not at home when the incident occurred.

The flames were controlled soon with the use of fire safety installations across the building which included first-aid hose reel, Rahangdale said. He added that the electrical wiring and installations, carpets, decorative items in the duplex which is spread over 3,600-4,000 sq ft got damaged in the fire.

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