KUALA LUMPUR: Seven shops were destroyed in a fire that swept through the Awan Besar Rest and Recreational (R&R) stop on the Kesas Highway heading towards Shah Alam here. City Fire and Rescue Department chief operations officer Samsol Maarif Saibani said 32 firemen were deployed to the scene after a distress call was received at…
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7 September – KUALA NERANG: One person is feared dead after a fire razed a row of eight double-storey shophouses here early this morning. In the blaze that occurred at about 3.20am, 15 firemen who were deployed to the scene took almost an hour to bring the fire under control, and it was another two hours…
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A pre-war building was razed when a fire broke out in Petaling Street, here. City Fire and Rescue Department chief Khirudin Drahman said the authorities were alerted to the incident at the two-storey souvenir shop at about 4.40am by an eyewitness. “We immediately deployed 55 personnel from seven stations to the location,” he said. Khirudin…
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An average of three homes are gutted nationwide daily. Fire and Rescue Department deputy director general Datuk Amer Yusof said up to July this year, 1,102 houses were destroyed by fire. He said most of them were terrace houses with 556 cases, flats (231), apartments (119), longhouses (100) and squatter homes (96). Investigations, he said,…
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Chong, 66, could only sob as he watched his 75-year-old home burn down, along with three unoccupied shops, in Jalan Metro Prima, Taman Kepong, at 12.45pm. He had spent his entire life in the single-storey shop that he had inherited from his father during the Japanese occupation. At the time of the fire, Chong was there with…
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12 August 2015 (The Star) GEORGE TOWN: Thinking that business will be good this Deepavali, S. Patmanathan has been stocking up on prayer paraphernalia since April. However, all his preparations went up in smoke on Monday night when his four shophouses – among the biggest oulets in Little India here – were razed, resulting in…
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