{"id":306554,"date":"2018-12-04T04:48:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T04:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306554"},"modified":"2018-12-04T04:48:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T04:48:05","slug":"mumbai-massive-fire-in-goregaons-aarey-colony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/mumbai-massive-fire-in-goregaons-aarey-colony\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumbai: Massive fire in Goregaon\u2019s Aarey Colony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-306555 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/MumbaiFire-300x138.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/MumbaiFire-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/MumbaiFire-768x353.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/MumbaiFire-696x320.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/MumbaiFire-915x420.jpg 915w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/MumbaiFire.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A major fire engulfed a forested area of about four kilometres in Mumbai&#8217;s Aarey Colony in Goregaon on Monday evening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The fire, which broke out at around 6:21 pm on Monday escalated to level three blaze by 8:05 pm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to Mumbai fire brigade, the fire, which was confined to trees and dry leaves, spread across an area of about 3-4 kilometers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">10 fire engines were pressed into service to douse the flames.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As per the latest report, the fire has been doused. No causalities have been reported so far.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The blaze started around 6:30 pm in an open plot. It started spreading towards residential areas such as New Mhada Colony near New Dindoshi Green Hill Society in Goregaon (East) towards night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The officer said, &#8220;the blaze remained confined to trees, dry leaves within a distance of 3-4 km from the spot of fire till 7.30 pm. But, in the night it started moving towards the residential localities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The reason behind the fire is yet to be ascertained.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major fire engulfed a forested area of about four kilometres in Mumbai&#8217;s Aarey Colony in Goregaon on Monday evening. The fire, which broke out at around 6:21 pm on Monday escalated to level three blaze by 8:05 pm. According to Mumbai fire brigade, the fire, which was confined to trees and dry leaves, spread [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":306555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,2014,2026],"tags":[10061,10062,71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306556,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306554\/revisions\/306556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}