Firefighters Tell That Mortir Was Hit By The Collapse Of The Wall When There Was An Explosion At The Munisi Warehouse Of Kodam Jaya

The East Jakarta Fire and Rescue Service (Sudin Gulkarmat) said that the process of extinguishing the fire due to the explosion at the Regional Munisi Warehouse owned by Kodam Jaya in Ciangsana Village, Bogor Regency, West Java, took about eight to ten hours.

Head of the Operations Section (Kasi Ops) of the East Jakarta Gulkarmat Sub-dept. Gatot Sulaeman explained that the process of cooling the fire at the Regional Munition Warehouse (Gudpur) of Kodam Jaya, Ciangsana Village, Bogor Regency was completed at 08.15 WIB.

"We stated that it was finished because the hotspots, which were still at 85 degrees from last night. Thank God we have lowered them to a safe point," said Gatot, quoted from Antara, Sunday, March 31.

"The cooling for the old one is quite good, yes, since that night we turned off in warehouse 5, we were cooling down. We also extinguished warehouse 6. Thank God the warehouse was 6 from 01.00, approximately 01.00 hours, has been cooling down until this morning," he explained.

Meanwhile, he said that during the cooling there was no explosion at two points where the blackout was extinguished, namely warehouse 5 and warehouse 6.

"If there was no explosion because we entered here, the condition was that there was no explosion," he said.

He explained that firefighters were not allowed to enter the location of the fire when the explosion occurred, so they could only enter when the explosion did not occur.

Meanwhile, he said that the fire rate that occurred in the warehouse was almost 90 percent, while the warehouse 5 was still intact. As for warehouse 7, he said, it was safe from fires.

"If the condition of warehouse 6 is actually when we arrived it was almost evenly flat, yes. This means that the piles inside are not very high, but there is a mortar part that is still hit by the collapse of the building's fence wall itself," he said.

Previously, Pangdam Jaya Major General TNI Mohamad Hasan said that the fire in Gudpur Kodam Jaya had been extinguished.

"At 03.45 WIB, we can confirm that the hotspots can be extinguished," said TNI Major General Mohamad Hasan in Bogor Regency, West Java, Sunday.

According to him, officers have taken steps to extinguish the fire due to the explosion that caused a warehouse fire number 6 of the cheap Gud, Kodam Jaya, which contained expired ammunition.

Major General Hasan said that currently officers are in the process of cooling down to anticipate the existence of fire propagation so that everything is safe.

"Earlier, we have taken steps to deal with the extinguishing of the hotspots from warehouse number 6," he said.