Summary:
On Wednesday around 3 pm a fire broke out on a Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) plot with an area of 22,690 square meters in Dombivli east. A sudden fire on a six-acre plot in the polluted Dombivli MIDC area has got the residents concerned about recurring instances of trees being burnt in the area. The plot was leased out to Dombivli Shikshan Prasarak Mandal/Pendharkar college by the MIDC. Some trees got burnt and bird nests were destroyed which made the residents approach the police. This is third such incident of trees being set on fire in the past six months in Thane district..