Mumbai’s chief fire officer Sunil Nesarikar on Sunday succumbed to burn injuries that he had sustained during the fire extinguishing operations in a four-storey building at Kalbadevi in south Mumbai early this month, thus taking the toll in the mishap to four.
Nesarikar, who had been rescued from under the debris of the blaze-engulfed Gokul Niwas building at Kalbadevi, passed away in the afternoon at the National Burns Centre (NBC) at Airoli in Navi Mumbai, where he was undergoing treatment for 57 per cent burns that he had suffered in the mishap.
Nesarikar is the fourth fire officer to have died in the massive fire that had swept through the four-storey building in the congested downtown Kalabadevi area in south Mumbai on May 10. Earlier, three senior fire officials –Assistant divisional fire officer SW Rane, Station officer MM Desai and deputy chief officer Sudhir Amin had succumbed to wounds in mishap.