20121020 19 houses gutted in fire
Indonesia Oct 20 2012 “Houses”
Dead : dead more than 10 Burnout : 1 to 29 Injured : injured 0 or unknown
19 houses gutted in fire
Updated: 2012-10-20-17:38
Fire gutted nineteen houses in a densely populated area in Jl. Angke Indah, Tambora, West Jakarta at 11:45 on Saturday, there were no immediate reports of casualties.
According to Sutarno, head of operations with the West Jakarta Firefighter Agency, the blaze is suspected to have been caused by a short circuit in one of the houses.
“Since most houses were adjacent to one another, the fire spread easily,” he said as quoted by tempo.co.
He added that firefighters were able to bring the fire under control at around 2 p.m. after deploying 28 fire appliances.
Some firefighters reportedly suffered from minor injuries while trying to extinguish the fire.(iwa)
Web Source： The Jakarta Post