Despite badly injuring hand while breaking locked doors to get to trapped people, Bhavin Punmiya continued to help people to safety from burning Vashi building

Within just 12 hours on Tuesday, October 21, two devastating fires claimed six lives and injured ten others — turning the Diwali week into tragedy and exposing once again how unprepared the city’s high-rises remain. But amid the chaos and smoke, a 24-year-old man emerged as the night’s unlikely hero.

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Around 1 am, a fire broke out on the 10th floor of Raheja Residency, MG Complex, Vashi. Within minutes, it engulfed the 11th and 12th floors, trapping several residents in thick smoke. Six flats were gutted before the fire was finally contained at 4.30 am.

Four people — 6-year-old Vedika Sundar Balakr

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