Back-to-Back Fires in Mumbai: Four Injured in Dharavi, Major Blaze at Lamington Road

Four residents, including two children, sustained burn injuries after a fire broke out in a residential structure at Sion Dharavi Link Road in the early hours of Sunday. The incident occurred in room 43 of a ground-plus-two-storey building in Rajiv Gandhi Nagar near Rajiv Gandhi Sports Club. The fire, confined to an LPG cylinder, was extinguished by locals before the Mumbai Fire Brigade arrived. The injured—Poonam Jaiswal (30), Rohan Gupta (5), Rudra Gupta (4), and Parvati Gandhari (19)—were admitted to Sion Hospital with stable conditions.

Separately, a major fire broke out at a 7,000 sq ft godown in Saraswati Bhavan on Lamington Road late Saturday night. The incident was reported to the Mumbai Fire Brigade at 11:33 pm, with a Level-II fire declared at 12:40 am. Six fire brigade vehicles were deployed for firefighting operations.