20130809 Indonesia NTT governor office razed by fire
Indonesia Aug 09 2013 “Building” “Office bldg.”
Dead : dead 0 or unknown Burnout : 1 to 29 Injured : injured 0 or unknown
NTT governor office razed by fire
Updated: 2013-08-09-12:43
The East Nusa Tenggara governor office was razed by a great fire on Friday morning. The fire is believed to have originated from a short circuit in the electricity that happened in a room on the third floor.
The fire had destroyed almost all the high officials’ offices, starting from the office of the governor through to the legal, women’s empowerment, development administration and economic bureaus offices on the third and fourth floors.
An eye witness, Rudi Erasmus, an employee, said that he firstly saw the fire at 7:15 a.m.
“My guess is that somebody just forgot to switch off the electricity on his or her office and that caused a short circuit,” he said as reported by Tempo.co on Friday.
Kupang Police deputy chief Comr. Julian Perdana said the police had questioned Rudi to gain more information on the cause of the fire. He said his office had also questioned six others as witnesses.
The fire brigades had managed to extinguish the fire and right now an evacuation process is still ongoing. Julian said according to early estimates the loss could be billions.(dic)
Websource:The Jakarta Post
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/08/09/ntt-governor-office-razed-fire.html
Date:2013-08-09
Country:Indonesia