Fire leaves 1,000 homeless in Tambora

JAKARTA: More than 1,000 residents of the densely populated Jembatan Lima area of Tambora, West Jakarta, were left homeless on Monday after a fire broke out at about 2 p.m.

Mingan of the West Jakarta Firefighters Brigade said 27 fire engines were sent to fight the fire. "We managed to put it out," he said, adding that the fire started from an explosion of a gas stove.

He said that they did not know how many houses were gutted by fire, but that the total could be in the hundreds and were mainly those along Jl. Teratai.

He also said that there were no estimates yet on the extent of damage done by the fire. --JP