It Took 1 Hour, Firefighters Put Out 6 Shop Houses In Central Singkawang

Fire at 6 shop houses in Singkawang, West Kalimantan (Photo: ANTARA)

SINGKAWANG - A total of six shop houses (ruko) on Jalan Setia Budi, Central Singkawang District, Singkawang City, West Kalimantan Province caught fire on Thursday, August 12 at around 18.00 WIB.

As many as 8 units of Singkawang City private fire trucks were deployed to extinguish the fire. There were no fatalities.

The chairman of the Singkawang City Independent Private Fire Agency (BPKS), Jhoni Sun, said that his party received information that said there was a fire at around 18.00 WIB.

"Receiving this information, we immediately rushed to the location with other fire engines, so that the fire could be extinguished in more than 1 hour," said Jhoni as quoted by Antara, Thursday night.

The density of people's houses plus the number of residents who want to watch makes it difficult for firefighters to extinguish the fire.

"Therefore, I appeal to residents who are not interested, do not get too close to the location of the fire. Because we as firefighters feel a little disturbed when we want to extinguish the fire," he said.

Jhoni suspected that the fire came from beside the pekong. Because from the shop, you can see the flames are quite big.

"The cause of the fire is still under investigation by the police," he said.

One of the victims, Antoni, said that he only knew about the fire incident at 19.00 WIB. "I was in the house at the time, then I heard my neighbor screaming there was a fire," he said.

Hearing that there was a fire, he immediately went out of the house and saw that the flames had grown. "Because of the magnitude of the fire, the roof of my house was hit. But now it has been extinguished," he said.

He immediately went into the house to save valuables. "Some items can be saved, one of which is a tatung shirt," said Anton.