House In Bintaro Burn IKPN Complex During An Electricity Outage

JAKARTA - The house located in the Bintaro IKPN Complex, Pesanggrahan, South Jakarta caught fire. The cause of the fire is suspected to be due to candles being lit during a power outage.

Staff of the Operations Section of the South Jakarta Fire and Rescue Sub-dept., Ruwanto, said the fire incident occurred on Thursday, December 15, at night.

"The cause (of the fire) is suspected to be from candles because there is a power outage," said Ruwanto when confirmed, Friday, December 16.

Ruwonto explained that as many as 13 units of the Kebakran Fire Department and 55 personnel were deployed. It aims to extinguish the fire.

"The result was that the fire was extinguished for an hour," he said.

Ruwanto confirmed that there were no casualties in the incident. However, for material losses it is estimated that it is up to hundreds of millions of rupiah.

"There are no casualties, allegedly up to hundreds of millions of rupiah," he concluded.