Mumbai skyscraper where Deepika stays catches fire
Actress tweets she is safe as 90 residents are evacuated; two firefighters injured
Firemen succeeded in controlling a major blaze in the top floors of the 33-storey Beaumonde Towers after battling the leaping flames for nearly five hours and evacuating more than 90 residents here yesterday evening.
However, at least two firemen suffered from suffocation and were rushed to a hospital.
Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone, who lives in the same building on the 26th floor, tweeted that she was safe and expressed her prayers for the well-being of the firefighters.
“I am safe. Thank You everyone. Let us pray for our firefighters who are at site risking their lives,” she tweeted.
According to BMC Disaster Control, the fire erupted around 2.10 pm on the two uppermost penthouse floors 33 and 32, of the five-year-old building, sending thick black clouds of smoke billowing from the tallest residential tower in Prabhadevi area of Dadar west.
Later, after nearly three hours, the flames started spreading out on to the lower floors creating panic among the flat owners who include several celebrities, top share broker Anand Rathi and Amisha Vora, business and glamor world personalities besides Padukone.
More than two dozen firetenders, including sophisticated lifts and cranes, were deployed to fight the blaze.
The fire emanated from the flat whose owners are currently abroad, but their residence has been reduced to ashes, according to some society members.
Padukone, who owns a four bedroom-hall-kitchen flat on the 26th floor was out for a shoot but her personal staff were among those who were evacuated in the afternoon as a precaution.