00:00Though Mumbaikers were enjoying the weekend, especially because of the festival of light,
00:04however, the fire brigade was the busiest around that time.
00:08If you just look at the data, which reflects as to how the Mumbaikers kept fire brigade busy,
00:15was that on Saturday, a total of 56 fire calls were received by the fire brigade.
00:21They attended to each one of them and in these, of the 56, 16 were due to firecrackers.
00:27On Sunday, on the Saturday incident, there was one person who died in Andheri area because of smoke inhalation.
00:35However, on Sunday, which was more busy a day for fire brigade, 142 calls were received,
00:42out of which 137 were because of firecrackers.
00:46Though most of these calls were level 1 and level 2, which means that they were not too big a
00:51fire call.
00:52But, you know, be it from Kurla, Malad, Marwe to Dongri, Ghatkopar West, Malad, you know, Kalina,
01:00all these areas, you know, there were a lot of fire calls that they were getting.
01:04And most of these were from the firecracker-led fires.
01:08And though no one was injured, but fire brigade itself had a field day.
01:13With Cameron Mamandar in Mumbai, Vidya for India Today.
