Investigation Of Fire Cases At Kemanggisan Gas Station Stopped, Victims And Damai Gas Stations

JAKARTA - The police have stopped investigating the burning of an oil fuel tanker (BBM) at the Kemanggisan Public Fuel Filling Station (SPBU), Palmerah, West Jakarta on Saturday, October 11, early in the morning.

"The reporter, the owner of the car, did not continue the police report because he finally mediated with the gas station. We cannot continue the investigation because he does not want to make a report," said Head of Criminal Investigation Unit of the West Jakarta Metro Police, AKBP Arfan Sipayung, quoting ANTARA, Monday, October 13.

Apart from the fact that the car owner did not make a police report, the investigation was also stopped because there were no victims from the community.

"There were no victims, no residents were affected. So, we didn't go there. There was only business between the car owner and the gas station. We couldn't have concluded for ourselves (the cause of the car caught fire)," said Arfan.

Arfan also emphasized that the burning car did not belong to Pertamina, but belonged to a third party (the provider).

Previously, an oil fuel tank (BBM) caught fire at the Kemanggisan gas station, Palmerah, West Jakarta, on Saturday, October 11, early in the morning.

Head of the Operations Section of the West Jakarta Fire and Rescue Service (Gulkarmat), Syarifudin, said that the incident that occurred at around 03.58 WIB was triggered by sparks from the fuel filling dynamo.

"The incident began when the fuel filling car (fuel tank) experienced sparks from the charging dynamo while loading (loading fuel) from the car tank to the gas station tank," said Syarifudin.

Syarifudin said the fire was suspected because the fuel tank car containing 24,000 liters caught fire. "Dinamo, a filling device occurred, a fire jump," he said.

There were no fatalities in this incident, but the losses incurred reached Rp. 2.5 billion. "There were minor injuries, one person, namely Ramdani, aged 40 years, supervisory positions," he said.