Fire Engulfs Thane Housing Society Flat, No Injuries Reported
A fire broke out in a residential flat in Thane on Thursday evening, but no injuries were reported, officials from the Thane Municipal Corporation’s Disaster Management Cell confirmed. The incident occurred around 5:32 pm on March 6, 2026, after the Disaster Management Cell received information from the Rustamji Fire Station about a fire inside a flat in A2 Wing of Building No. 73 at Vrindavan Society in Thane (West).
The fire started in Room No. 02 on the ground floor, owned by Ashok Semla, in the ground-plus-four-storey residential building. Authorities said the blaze originated from a washing machine inside the house.
A fire brigade team rushed to the spot with one rescue vehicle after receiving the alert. However, local residents had already managed to control and extinguish the fire before firefighters arrived, officials said.
The fire caused damage to household appliances including a washing machine, refrigerator, and electrical wiring, which were partially burnt. Officials confirmed that no injuries were reported, and the situation was brought fully under control.
In another incident, six four-wheelers, including two scrapped vehicles, were gutted after a fire broke out at an auto garage compound in Maharashtra's Thane city in the early hours of Thursday, an official said. Nobody was injured in the blaze that erupted around 1 am in the open space of Achutanand Auto Garage in the Wagle Estate area, said Yasin Tadvi from the Thane Municipal Corporation's Disaster Management Cell.
Six four-wheelers parked in the compound, including a scrapped mini truck and an Ambassador car, along with some discarded materials, caught fire, Tadvi said. Fire brigade personnel extinguished the blaze by around 1.50 am with the help of Disaster Management Cell staff, he said. Further investigation into the cause of the fire is underway, the official added.
Meanwhile, a fire broke out in a girls' hostel of a state-run ashram school in Maharashtra's Palghar district on Thursday, though there are no reports of injuries as all 87 inmates were successfully evacuated, a civic official said.
