The Acting Head of the DKI Jakarta Fire and Rescue Service (Gulkarmat), Satriadi Gunawan, revealed that the Glodok Plaza building that caught fire on Wednesday, January 15, did not meet the standard for building fire safety since 2023.
This is known from the periodic evaluation by the DKI Jakarta Gulkarmat Service which is carried out every year.
"For the Plaza Glodok case, we have stated that in 2023 we have not met the fire safety requirements," said Satriadi at DKI Jakarta City Hall, Tuesday, January 21.
One of the fire safety requirements that were not met in the Glodok Plaza building was the protection of fires inside the building that did not function optimally.
"The problem of functioning or not is the responsibility of the owner and manager. For example, I checked today that he was functioning. A month later, it didn't work. So it should be the responsibility of the owner and manager," said Satriadi.
According to Satriadi, his party has warned Glodok Plaza managers to meet building safety standards.
Starting from ensuring the availability of access to firefighters into buildings, active fire protection infrastructure such as APAR and sprinklers must function, prepare building fire safety management, and provide two rescue stairs for evacuation.
"So it is not certain that when we checked, at that time it was good. Again it is the responsibility of the managers and owners for treatment related to the protection of the fire," he explained.
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It is known that the fire at Glodok Plaza occurred on Wednesday, January 15 at around 21.33 WIB. The officers finally succeeded in the cooling process on Thursday, January 16 evening, and the fire was completely extinguished on Friday, January 17 evening.
The Gulkarmat Service deployed dozens of fire engines at the mall located on Jalan Pinangsia Raya, Mangga Besar Village, Tamansari District. Pedadaman is also carried out with a skylift bronto unit.
It is known, as many as 14 people were reported missing in the fire incident. The number of body bags of victims of the Glodok Plaza fire that have been collected is 9 body bags. The search process has been carried out for 6 days.
Although 9 body bags have been evacuated, to this day there has been no identification of the bodies of the victims of the fire.
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