00:01All right, big breaking news that's coming in is from Mumbai City.
00:04So while, of course, there were festivities of Diwali, there's constantly been an awareness campaign to please save, to be
00:10cautious.
00:10But in Mumbai, the night turned deadly as well.
00:14There were instances that were reported after the use of firecrackers about turning into fires and flames in residential localities.
00:23And therefore, ladies and gentlemen, the Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation has banned rockets, air and firecrackers across Mumbai till 25
00:31November after these pay to fires.
00:34Ban applies to public and private spaces, including terrors, balcony, parking lots and slum areas.
00:39Order has been issued under the Disaster Management Act.
00:42This is a prohibitory order issued by additional Municipal Commissioner Prajitha Lavangre Varma in her capacity as the chairperson in
00:48charge of the Urban Disaster Management Authority, Brihan Mumbai.
00:50It comes into immediate effect, which means today itself, 9th November and will remain in force in 25 November.
00:58What do we have? This is also from Thane, remember, visuals on your screens.
01:03Raheja high-rise saw massive fire.
01:0650 people had to be rescued from a burning high-rise building.
01:09And there were several other incidents that were also reported from in and around Mumbai.
01:15Thankfully for now, I don't have any clarity on if there are any casualties.
01:18I hope not, but this could have really turned into massive disasters.
01:23Let's listen in now to the Mumbai mayor speaking on the bursting of crackers and the ban of it.
01:33Let's listen in now.
02:21Bringing in my colleague Mustafa Sheikh for the latest on that.
02:24Mustafa, what kind of incidents were reported from in and around Mumbai and why this ban from till 25 November?
02:32Because many would say that the Diwali festival is over.
02:34So why for the next few days as well?
02:39Well, yes, as a prevention, the ban has been extended till 25th of November.
02:44Past three nights in Mumbai have been about news happening in various high-rises about fires happening.
02:52There is a day before yesterday incident in which liftment had also passed away.
02:57And primarily this is happening because of firecrackers in Thane, as you rightly said, it was a rocket which led
03:04to a fire.
03:04In Mumbai, if you see Kanjur Mark, Dongreer, there were many such areas where heavy fire has been reported.
03:12Lacks and lakh rupees of losses have been suffered by people in these fire incidences.
03:19And maybe the heat which is going on in Mumbai, the temperature goes up to 36 degrees in the day
03:26is also one of the reasons that the fire or the heat is spreading.
03:29And that's why rockets are playing a damaging role in these incidences.
03:35And given these number of incidences and for any city's fire department, it will be difficult to handle so many
03:42fires at the same time or similar time.
03:45And hence delays can happen, shortage of water can happen and many such things.
03:49As the mayor was rightly saying that our joy should not become somebody else's grief.
03:54And hence this ban has been issued so that till 25th of November there was no firecrackers bursting in public
04:01or private places.
04:03And more than that, citizens who are watching these reports have to take cognizance and understand the gravity of the
04:09situation back to you, Pooja.
04:10All right, Mustafa.
04:11You know, these are days of festivities and people need to be more cautious, be more aware, especially in a
04:17city like Mumbai, remember.
04:18For example, unlike Delhi, that the space is a constraint when it comes to celebrations of this nature.
04:25There will have to be some other significant measures taken as well on this.
04:29Mustafa, thank you very much for now.
04:31And this Mumbai order comes after Thane order.
04:33Of course, after the Thane district administration where the incident happened in Thane of the high-rise building that caught
04:39fire because of one of these fireworks.
04:42Also, my colleague Vidya sent me this report about what the cities of Maharashtra were looking like.
04:49Though Mumbaikers were enjoying the weekend, especially because of the festival of light, however, the fire brigade was the busiest
04:57around that time.
04:58If you just look at the data, which reflects as to how the Mumbaikers kept fire brigade busy, was that
05:05on Saturday, a total of 56 calls, fire calls were received by the fire brigade.
05:11They attended to each one of them and in these, of the 56, 16 were due to firecrackers.
05:17On Sunday, on the Saturday incident, there was one person who died in Andheri area because of smoke inhalation.
05:25However, on Sunday, which was more busy a day for fire brigade, 142 calls were received out of which 137
05:34were because of firecrackers.
05:35Though most of these calls were level 1 and level 2, which means that they were not too big a
05:41fire call.
05:42But, you know, be it from Kurla, Malad, Marwe to Dongri, Ghatkopar West, Malad, you know, Kalina, all these areas,
05:51you know, there were a lot of fire calls that they were getting.
05:54And most of these were from the firecracker-led fires and though no one was injured, but fire brigade itself
06:02had a field day.
06:03With Cameron Mamandar in Mumbai, Vidya for India Today.
