The blaze erupted around 5.45 am in the unit located in an industrial area of Ambernath town, Thane Municipal Corporation’s Regional Disaster Management Cell chief Santosh Kadam was quoted by news agency PTI as saying.
According to reports, eight fire tenders have been rushed to the spot, and firefighting operations are underway. No casualties have been reported so far in the incident and the cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained. More details are awaited.
On Tuesday, a factory manufacturing plastic goods near Asangaon in Maharashtra’s Thane district was gutted in a fire.
The blaze erupted around 7.40 am in the unit located at Vehloli in Shahapur on the Mumbai-Nashik highway where household plastic goods were manufactured. More than a dozen fire engines were to the spot to contain the fire.
(With inputs from ANI and PTI)
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