Pedestrian raises alarm after noticing smoke at top floor of plush hotel in Mumbai; fire brigade says no blaze

A pedestrian raised an alarm after seeing smoke coming out of the top floor of a plush 34-floor hotel in south Mumbai on Sunday, but a fire official later said there was no blaze and the smoke was billowing out of the hotel’s chimney.

According to the fire official, they were alerted at 8.20 am after the person noticed smoke at the Trident Hotel located at Nariman Point here.

A fire engine and a jumbo tanker were rushed to the spot. After reaching the spot, the fire personnel found the smoke was coming out of a chimney on the building’s terrace due to a technical failure in a tube boiler kept at the basement of the hotel building, he said.

The fire brigade made an enquiry with the hotel authorities and also thoroughly inspected the premises, but there was no fire, the official said.

It was a ”good intent false alarm message” by the pedestrian, the official said.