5 Shops And 2 Houses In Lubuk Begalung Padang Ludes Burnt

Officers are putting out a fire that burned five shops and two houses in Padang (ANTARA/HO Damkar Padang)

A total of five shops and two houses located on Jalan Raya Lubuk Begalung, Lubuk Begalung XX Village, Lubuk Begalung District, Padang City, West Sumatra, were burned down.

Head of Operations for Facilities and Infrastructure of the Padang City Fire Department, Sutan Hendra, said reports of fires entering the office at around 05.08 WIB and his party dispatched officers directly to the location.

"We arrived at the location and carried out the handling and the (fire) of the building was successfully extinguished at around 06.05 WIB," he said as quoted by ANTARA, Wednesday, June 14.

He said the witness' report to the firefighters was seen from the shop, then reported it to the Padang City Fire Department.

"The cause of the fire is not yet known and this is of course awaiting an investigation from the police," he said.

The Padang City Fire Department deployed seven fire engines with 70 personnel to extinguish the fire. They kept trying to get to the location for a short time and put out the fire.

"This location is located in residential areas and we are trying to extinguish the fire so it doesn't spread further," he said.

There were seven burning buildings consisting of five shops and two houses, while the burned area was 500 square meters.

"We recorded that the losses due to this incident reached Rp. 1 billion," he said.

As a result of this incident, no one died or was injured. The occupants of this building have eight heads of families with a total of 17 people.

"Alhamdulillah, there were no casualties and 17 people who lived in the building were temporarily displaced," he said.