Mumbai, A hearth broke out within the basement of the Bandra-Kurla Advanced underground metro station in Mumbai on Friday afternoon, resulting in suspension of rail companies there for greater than two hours as a precautionary measure, officers mentioned. No one was injured within the blaze that erupted round 1.10 pm within the non-operational A4 entry/exit of the station that’s underneath building, they mentioned. The hearth was confined to picket sheets, furnishings and building materials at a depth of 40-50 ft of the station positioned in Bandra East, inflicting heavy smoke within the operational space of the station, the officers mentioned. “Nobody was injured in the fire incident,” a civic official mentioned. Eight fireplace engines and different fireplace brigade autos had been rushed to the spot. The hearth brigade was assisted by the personnel of metropolis police, Adani Energy, 108 Ambulance, Mumbai Metro Rail Company , Public Works Division and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Company native administrative ward staffers within the firefighting operation, he mentioned. The hearth was extinguished after practically two hours of efforts. It was doused at 3.11 pm and the metro companies, which had been suspended on the station, had been restored after that, the MMRC mentioned. The BKC metro station is a part of the 12.69 km-long Section 1 of the MMRC’s Mumbai Metro Line-3 connecting BKC and Aarey JVLR. This line was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi final month. In an announcement issued at 3.35 pm, the MMRC mentioned the hearth occurred close to the “non-operational A4 Entry/Exit of BKC Metro Station which is under construction”. The blaze was utterly extinguished and metro companies had been normalised after getting clearance from the hearth division at 2.45 pm. The hearth led to leakage of smoke into the operational portion of the station premises and therefore metro operations on the station had been quickly paused as a precautionary measure for the passengers’ security, it mentioned. “Metro services in the rest of the section between Aarey JVLR and Bandra Colony were in normal operation,” the MMRC acknowledged. On October 21, a hearth had damaged out on the bottom ground of the Mandai metro station in Pune metropolis, during which no person was injured.
Hearth in basement of Mumbai’s BKC metro station hits companies for over 2 hours; none injured