thane thirteen residents trapped on the terrace of a fivestorey building in old thane were rescued after a fire engulfed the meter box room of their structure blocking their exit on thursday morning officials saidavinash sawant from the thane regional disaster management cell said rescue teams were alerted and attended to the fire around 730am at guruprerna building in charai the structure is a composite structure with commercial and residential units and a temple on the top floorthere was a fire in the meter box room near the building entrance in the morning the flames went undetected early in the morning and slowly spread to the upper floors as residents panicked and took refuge on the terrace as there was dense smoke on the lower floor staircase said sawant as access to the structure from the ground floor was blocked by the fire and dense fumes our team along with the fire brigade used a ladder to rescue residents who had assembled on the terrace said sawant the fire was brought under control within two hours and no one was injured in the incident officials saidin january there was a fire on the eighth floor of an underconstruction building at bhaskar colony in thane