Mumbai: Residents of Mumbai Building where the fire claimed the six lives on Saturday said that they heard a loud voice followed by black smoke, and remembering the madness of those who lived there to get out to a safe place.
“We heard a big voice and rushed out.
There was black smoke coming out of a few floors above us.
We immediately rushed down and entered the open area,” said a resident.
At least six people were killed and 23 others were injured in a large fire broken on the 19th floor of Sachinam Heights, a residential building in the Tardeo area in Central Mumbai on Saturday morning.
A 50-year-old woman who lives on the fifth floor said, “I heard a noise and realized that something was wrong.
Because we were all scared, I fell twice while helping my husband go down the stairs.” “I don’t remember how I reached the open area,” he said.
Residents of Matrumandir’s building near Sachinam Heights associated the fire to the explosion of AC compressor.
“We were on the terrace early in the morning when we heard a loud noise, which sounded like a kind of explosion.
We saw the fire and smoke out of the flat and immediately called the fire brigade,” said the Matrumandir reporter.
“We then called other colleagues from our public to arrange residents who were saved from the building to rest in the open space area of our building,” he said.
A resident of Sachinan Heights said he had returned from Kurla’s train station just before Blaze.
“It was shortly after 7 am when the fire broke out.
We were then told it was due to short circuit.
I have gone to drop my mother at Kurla Station.
When I returned, I was in the room and heard a loud voice.
Voice,” he said.
“Suddenly the lights left.
I saw the smoke in the gallery.
There are riots trying to come out.
Many are injured.
Some sustainable head injuries.
Injuries including many senior citizens,” he said.
A woman who lives on the 14th floor of the building said she came to know the fire after being awakened by a friend, following their profusely outside.
Another woman who lives on the fourth floor said, “We found out fire shortly after 7am.
When we came outside the building, there was a sound of” fat-fat “outside the cabin (which might accommodate the AC compressor).” There was smoke first and Then there was a flame, “he said.
Ask how he came out of the building, he said he used the stairs.
Many residents of the Sachinam building shifted to the Matrumandir building, where they were given tea.
And snacks by the people there.
Blaze erupted around 7 In the morning at the Sachinam Heights building located opposite the Bhatia Hospital in Gowalia Tank, when many residents were still sleeping, said a BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) official.
It took about six hours to put out the Blaze, the official said.