Eight occupants, including three minors, were safely rescued on Sunday after a blaze broke out in a residential high-rise building in Kandivali West, officials from the Mumbai Fire Brigade (MFB) said.

The fire, which started in the second-story apartment of the Agarwal Residency, was promptly restricted by the MFB, although the victims were incapacitated by a dense smoke that obstructed their way out.

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The MFB was alerted at around 7:45 a.m. Firefighting crews were able to put out the blaze within 20 minutes, at 8:05 a.m. The fire was limited to the living room of a second-floor flat in the ground-plus-sixteen-storey building, destroying electrical wiring, installations, and wooden furniture.

"The heavy black smoke ha

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