Fire leaves 1,000 homeless in Tambora

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