JERTIH: A house and seven vehicles, including five motorcycles, were destroyed in a fire at Kampung Gong Duek in Hulu Besut on Sunday (Feb 2). Jertih fire station chief Mustafa Ismail said the two-storey semi-permanent house was 80% destroyed. "We received a distress call at 6.46pm. A team of 13 in two fire engines and a tanker...
BUTTERWORTH: A factory in the Perai industrial area caught fire on Friday (Jan 17), sending thick plumes of smoke visible even from Penang Island. The incident reportedly occurred around 4pm while factory operators were on duty. All operators and personnel have been safely evacuated. Firefighters from the state Fire and Rescue Department have been deployed to the site,...
JAKARTA: A massive fire engulfed one of Jakarta’s oldest malls, Glodok Plaza, in Taman Sari, West Jakarta, on Wednesday (Jan 15) night, with the city’s Fire and Rescue Agency deploying more than 47 fire trucks and 200 personnel to the site. The remains of the fire were being extinguished on Thursday evening, and one person has...
MELAKA: A 36-year-old factory manager got out of harm's way moments before his luxury car burst into flames after a crash along KM199.7 of the North-South Expressway near Ayer Keroh Toll Plaza. Tan Hong Ta from Johor Baru was thankful that no fatalities occurred after a tanker lorry collided with the rear of his car in...
SEREMBAN: A generator room supplying electricity to the Tuanku Ja'afar Hospital (HTJ) here caught fire on Thursday afternoon (Dec 26). Negeri Sembilan Fire and Rescue Department (JBPM) senior operations commander PgKB II Khir Amir Ahmad said they received a call about the incident at 12.40pm. “When responders arrived, they discovered that a fire had taken place in...
KOTA KINABALU: A man sustained serious burns on his body as he ran through flames to escape from his burning house. Woo Chee Ke, 54, lived on the first floor of an apartment unit in Kolombong near here, and was believed to have been sleeping when he woke up to the heat and smoke. Fire Station chief...
ALOR SETAR: Two restaurants located on Jalan Pantai Chenang in Langkawi, were destroyed in a fire last night. Langkawi Zone Fire and Rescue chief Supt Mohd Zamri Abdul Ghani said that his department received an emergency call at 8.11pm, leading to teams of personnel from Padang Mat Sirat Fire and Rescue Station (BBP), Langkawi BBP and...
JOHOR BARU: A teenager and a man were charged at the Sessions Court here for committing mischief by fire. The accused Chin Kah Eng, 20, and a 15-year-old boy pleaded not guilty to the charge, which was read before Sessions Court judge Datuk Ahmad Kamal Ariffin Ismail on Thursday (Nov 28). They were charged with setting fire...
KAJANG: Four people were rescued following a fire at a two-storey shophouse and three adjacent shops at Kampung Sungai Chua. Firemen had to use a bolt cutter to open the doors as the two men and two women aged between 27 and 58, were trapped in the inferno early Sunday (Nov 24) morning. Selangor Fire and Rescue...
IPOH: A 38-year-old Vietnamese woman has been arrested to assist in the investigation of a fire involving three houses and four vehicles in Taman Singa, Sitiawan. Manjung OCPD assistant commissioner Hasbullah Abd Rahman said police initially received a call from a 42-year-old house owner at Taman Singa in Sitiawan at around 2.50am on Friday (Nov 8),...
