{"id":486118,"date":"2023-08-27T18:24:17","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T12:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=486118"},"modified":"2023-08-27T18:24:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T12:54:23","slug":"mumbai-galaxy-hotel-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/mumbai-galaxy-hotel-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"3 people dead, several injured after fire breaks out at Galaxy hotel in Mumbai"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a tragic incident, three people died and five injured after a fire broke out at the Galaxy Hotel in Mumbai\u2019s Santacruz on Sunday. Police with local authorities reached the spot after receiving the information about the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the fire brigade official, the blaze was reported on the third floor of the hotel at around 1.17 pm and gutted the electric wiring, power installations, air-conditioning, curtains, mattresses, wood furniture in a couple of rooms and common areas like the duct, staircase and lobby after which four fire tenders and as many water tankers were rushed to the spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fire has been brought under control but the blaze has still not been completely put out yet. Six people have been safely rescued so far, as per the official.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two persons identified as Rupal Kanji (25), Kishan (28) and Kantilal Gordhan Vara (48) were declared brought dead by hospital authorities. Alfa Vakhariya (19) and Manjula Vakhariya (49) are injured and are under treatment, the official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WATCH | Mumbai, Maharashtra: On the fire incident in a hotel in the Santacruz area, Fire Officer PG Dudhal says, &quot;We tried to control the fire immediately and we rescued eight people. The three injured were shifted to VN Desai Hospital. All three were declared dead&#8230; The fire\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XCgELU5YKe\">https:\/\/t.co\/XCgELU5YKe<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rz9G7mOazb\">pic.twitter.com\/rz9G7mOazb<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1695758496263028892?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 27, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The fire gutted wiring, furniture, air conditioning. Mattresses in room number 103 and 203, while it also destroyed clothes for laundry, room blankets in the staircase and lobby as well as wiring in the common duct from the first to third floor, a civic official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fire brigade used three hose lines, one high-pressure first aid line, four fire engines, four water tankers, and other equipment to extinguish the Level I blaze at 3:20pm, according to an official.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier in June 2023, another incident happened where one person died and five were injured after a fire broke out at a chemical company in Maharashtra&#8217;s Thane district. The blaze started near a nitric acid tank in the factory at 4pm in Ambernath MIDC, as per reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Six fire engines, two each from Ambernath, Anand Nagar and Ulhasnagar, were pressed into service and the fire was brought under control in one and half hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though nitric acid itself is not flammable, it is a strong oxidising agent and can support combustion and react with other substances that can catch fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fire broke out at the Galaxy Hotel in Mumbai\u2019s Santacruz on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":486121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497],"tags":[479,160285,112],"yst_prominent_words":[36223,25814,34681,90934,24805,8651,35252,7264,3944,4812,7597,6071,4051,26861,94752],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2023\/08\/27182248\/Galaxy-hotel.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486118"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=486118"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=486118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->