Portable Stove Explodes, One House In Duren Sawit Burns

Firefighters extinguish a fire in a house in the Duren Sawit area of East Jakarta/Photo: Spc

JAKARTA - One resident's house on Mayang street, 3E, RT 06/07, Pondok Kelapa Village, Duren Sawit Subdistrict, East Jakarta was burnt down. Temporary suspicion, the fire came from a portable stove in the kitchen of the house.

Head of East Jakarta Fire and Rescue Service Sub-dept., Gatot Sulaeman, said that the only object that caught fire was the kitchen part of the house of one resident in the Duren Sawit area.

"We received a report at 20.13 WIB from one of the residents. We deployed 3 units of fire engines with 10 officers," he told reporters, Sunday, August 21, evening.

Officers arrived at the location at 20:20 WIB and immediately carried out the process of extinguishing the fire. The fire was successfully localized at 20.30 WIB. After the extinguishing process was completed, the officers returned to cool down at 20.35 WIB.

"The blackout ended at 20.45 WIB. The object that caught fire was the kitchen of Mr. Dias's house. The cause of the fire was the portable stove in the house," he said.

From the results of the inventory, the area of the burned object is only 2x3 square meters. Losses were estimated at IDR 5 million due to the fire.

"The owner of the house only noticed the fire when the owner came down from the top floor, he saw a big fire in the kitchen room," he concluded.