Cigarette butt sparks big fire

JAKARTA: Smoking is indeed a dangerous habit, as the caretaker of a toys warehouse in Kebon Jeruk, West Jakarta found out on Sunday evening.

The caretaker, who had been smoking, threw his smoldering cigarette butt to the ground, not realizing that turpentine had been spilled there.

The fire swiftly gutted the warehouse located on Jl. Raya Puri Kembangan, but firefighters managed to extinguish it before it spread to other buildings, the Jakarta Police revealed on Monday. --JP