Limited Water Supply Becomes A Fire Extinguishing Constraint In Kapuk Muara

JAKARTA - The process of extinguishing hundreds of houses that caught fire in the Kapuk Muara area, Penjaringan, North Jakarta, experienced problems. Some of them ares, which is a densely populated residential area and a limited water supply.

"Yes, in the meantime, it is a dense area, so for access as usual, our access to water must also have available reservoirs," said Head of the DKI Jakarta Fire and Rescue Service (Gulkarmat), Bayu Meghantara, quoted on Saturday, June 7.

With the difficulty of water sources and areas that are burned large enough, officers must look for water points in the river or others.

"Indeed, because the area is quite wide, we need relatively more water. And now we are constantly trying to find water support for cooling at this time," said Bayu.

A total of 450 houses caught fire on Jalan Duta Harapan Indah 7, Kapuk Muara, Penjaringan, North Jakarta (Jakut) caught fire on Friday, June 6, at 12.18 WIB.

Head of Operations for North Jakarta Gulkarmat Sub-dept., Gatot Sulaeman, said that a total of 750 families (KK) were affected by the fire incident.

(The affected) 450 houses 750 families (Head of Families). The area affected is 30,000 m2,' said Gatot.

Gatot said that in the process of extinguishing the fire, his party deployed 30 units and 150 North Jakarta firefighters (damkar).

As a result, the fire can only be extinguished after almost 13 hours of time.

"Received the report at 12.18 WIB. The end of the blackout was 00.16 WIB," said Gatot.