Members of at least 30 families residing in a five-storey building in Thane city of Maharashtra were evacuated after a major fire broke out in its ground-floor shop today morning, a civic official said.
Nobody was injured in the incident, he said.
"A major fire broke out in a grocery shop located on the ground floor of a five-storey building in Sri Lanka area of Mumbra around 9 am," Avinash Sawant, chief of the Regional Disaster Management Cell (RDMC) of the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC), said.
"A major tragedy was averted as the residents were moved to safety in time by the fire brigade personnel and the RDMC staff," he said.
Two fire engines were pressed into the service and the blaze was extinguished in an hour, Sawant said, adding that the cause of the fire is being probed.
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