Overview

• Fire officials said the blaze was reported at 4:15 am and extinguished within about 20 minutes, preventing spread beyond a first‑floor room.
• The fire was confined to a roughly 10-by-10-foot area affecting wiring, electrical installations, three EV batteries, and household items, according to the BMC.
• Fifteen-year-old Yash Khot was declared dead at St George’s Hospital; Devendra Choudhary remains in the ICU, while Viraj Khot and Sangram Kurne are stable.
• Mumbai Fire Brigade, police, BEST staff, and ambulances responded, and police have cordoned the site as forensic teams assess the cause.
• Elsewhere over the weekend, a Worli chawl fire caused no injuries, a Borivli shop blaze was linked by officials and witnesses to a stray Diwali rocket, and Thane authorities evacuated and sealed six flats after a chawl slab collapse injured two.