<p>The victims suffocated due to toxic fumes which engulfed the lift of the 14-storey building in which they were returning after dousing fire, Thane Chief Fire Officer Vijay Vaidya said.<br />After they successfully doused the fire on the terrace of the building, they got trapped in the lift and choked in the fumes that may have accumulated there, he said.<br /><br />All those dead were from the Wagle Estate Fire Brigade and had answered an emergency call around 4.30 a.m. on the top floor of the 14-storied Punarvasu Building in the posh Tarangan Complex.<br /><br />Vaidya said it was the second fire call from the same building in less than four hours as people were bursting Diwali crackers.<br /><br />"The first call was just before midnight when a minor fire broke out in a flat on the top floor of the building. Our men extinguished it and had returned to the fire-station," he said.<br /><br />Later around 4.30 a.m., they attended another call from the same building where a fire broke out on the terrace of the building as people were bursting crackers, he said.<br />After the firemen brought the blaze under control, they were returning from the lift "when the horrible tragedy occurred," Vaidya said.<br /><br />The victims have been identified as: J.C. Singh, Avdhut Thanekar, S.R. Jamadar, Kishore Patil, S.K.S. Shinde and Kale, an official from the fire control said.<br />There were no other casualties and a probe has been ordered into the incident.</p>
<p>The victims suffocated due to toxic fumes which engulfed the lift of the 14-storey building in which they were returning after dousing fire, Thane Chief Fire Officer Vijay Vaidya said.<br />After they successfully doused the fire on the terrace of the building, they got trapped in the lift and choked in the fumes that may have accumulated there, he said.<br /><br />All those dead were from the Wagle Estate Fire Brigade and had answered an emergency call around 4.30 a.m. on the top floor of the 14-storied Punarvasu Building in the posh Tarangan Complex.<br /><br />Vaidya said it was the second fire call from the same building in less than four hours as people were bursting Diwali crackers.<br /><br />"The first call was just before midnight when a minor fire broke out in a flat on the top floor of the building. Our men extinguished it and had returned to the fire-station," he said.<br /><br />Later around 4.30 a.m., they attended another call from the same building where a fire broke out on the terrace of the building as people were bursting crackers, he said.<br />After the firemen brought the blaze under control, they were returning from the lift "when the horrible tragedy occurred," Vaidya said.<br /><br />The victims have been identified as: J.C. Singh, Avdhut Thanekar, S.R. Jamadar, Kishore Patil, S.K.S. Shinde and Kale, an official from the fire control said.<br />There were no other casualties and a probe has been ordered into the incident.</p>
