Overview
- Fire at Vashi’s Raheja Residency started around 12:30 am on the 10th floor and spread to the 11th and 12th, killing four including 6-year-old Vedika Sundar Balakrishnan and 84-year-old Kamala Hiralal Jain, with about 10 injured as crews extinguished the blaze by 4 am.
- Police and civic officials said a short circuit is suspected in the Navi Mumbai case, with a formal investigation underway after more than a dozen residents were rescued and several victims treated at local hospitals.
- A separate pre-dawn blaze in a Cuffe Parade chawl killed 15-year-old Yash Khot and injured three, with damage confined to wiring, electrical installations and three electric-vehicle batteries, according to the BMC disaster cell.
- Mumbai Fire Brigade recorded roughly 50 incidents over 60 hours of Diwali, including shop and vehicle fires, and a Borivali case where a rocket allegedly ignited a tarpaulin-covered mirror shop that was destroyed.
- Delhi Fire Services logged 269 fire calls through Diwali night, rescuing seven from a Mohan Garden building and deploying about 40 tenders to a large Sanjay Gandhi Transport Nagar godown fire, as hospitals reported more than 250 burn cases.