Overview
- The blaze broke out around 3:06 am in a ground-plus-one home on Rajaram Lane in Bhagat Singh Nagar, Goregaon West, and was brought under control by about 3:16 am.
- Firefighters rescued three occupants who were declared dead on arrival at Trauma Care Hospital and identified as Sanjog Pawaskar, 48, Harshada Pawaskar, 19, and Kushal Pawaskar, 12.
- Hospital officials reported severe burn injuries, while some officials initially cited suffocation from smoke, and the precise medical cause is to be confirmed.
- Local residents first tried to douse the flames with buckets before the Mumbai Fire Brigade arrived, cut electricity, and completed firefighting operations.
- A day earlier, a separate Level-I fire at the Lodha Grandeur building in Parel was confined to bamboo scaffolding, extinguished by 7:36 pm, and caused no injuries.