No one was injured in the blaze which erupted at around 1.50 am in the hospital located in Kasarwadavali area on Ghodbunder Road
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A fire broke out in the electric meter room of a three-storey civic-run hospital in Maharashtra's Thane city on Wednesday, an official told news agency PTI.
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No one was injured in the blaze which erupted at around 1.50 am in the hospital located in Kasarwadavali area on Ghodbunder Road, Thane Municipal Corporation's (TMC) disaster management cell chief Yasin Tadvi told PTI.
There were patients in the hospital at the time of the incident, but no one was affected, he said.
The fire was caused due to a short-circuit, he said.
After being alerted, local firemen and the disaster management team rushed to the spot and extinguished the blaze by 2.20 am, the official told PTI.
An additional executive engineer of the TMC told PTI a "change wire" between the generator and the MSEB (Maharashtra State Electricity Board) power supply was damaged due to the fire, while all the meters and the connection wires were intact.
The power supply to the building has been cut off and will be restored after the change wire is replaced by the MSEB personnel, he said.
The ground-plus-three-storey building has an the Out-Patient Department (OPD), as well as dialysis and maternity wards, Tadvi told PTI.
In another incident, a 55-year-old man had a narrow escape when his car caught fire on a busy road in Maharashtra's Thane city on Tuesday, a traffic police official told PTI.
The incident took place in the morning, when the man was driving on Ghodbunder road, inspector R A Vani of Kapurbawdi traffic police department told PTI.
The motorist noticed fumes coming out of his vehicle and immediately took it to the side of the road, and by the time he got out, the car was engulfed in flames, he said.
Local firemen and the RDMC team rushed to the spot and doused the fire around 10 am. But the car was completely wrecked, Yasin Tadvi, chief of the civic disaster control cell, told PTI.
A car parked near the vehicle was also damaged in the fire, he said, adding that the cause is yet to be ascertained.
(With inputs from PTI)
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