Two-story store near Boulevard in Miri burned down

MIRI, Oct. 3: A store near Boulevard here, burned down in today's incident.

According to the Malaysian Fire and Rescue Department (JBPM) of Sarawak, it received an emergency call at 7am before teams from BBP Miri and BBP Lopeng's rescue wing arrived on site five minutes later.

"Preliminary investigative results found that the fire involved a two-story store of permanent type approximately 40 feet by 60 feet.

"The fire is estimated to have destroyed about 70 percent of the second floor of the building", the statement said.

There were no casualties in the incident.

The bomb squad conducted the blackout operation using a 200-foot flow and one engine pump nozzle with water from the pump pulley.

The extinguishing operation was conducted using offensive and defensive methods before the fire was completely extinguished at 8:02 a.m.

The operation ended at 8:40 a.m. after an inspection found no possibility of the fire spreading or re-igniting.

A total of 15 members along with two FRT engines and an EMRS were involved in the operation, assisted by seven PDRM members and two Sarawak Energy Berhad (SEB) members. -TVS