Fire razes underwear factory

TANGERANG: Fire destroyed a home-based enterprise that produced women's underwear at Gudang Delapan compound in Jatimulya, Kosambi district, late on Thursday.

A worker, Suwandi, said he saw sparks coming from one of the hemming machines that later burnt the fabric.

"I then rushed to the security post to report the fire but when we got there, fire had burned all the material and the 50 hemming machines," he said on Friday.

Ten fire trucks from both the municipality and the regency had to alternately enter the site because the road was too narrow. The fire was put out in two hours at about 9 p.m.

"But, at least we managed to prevent fire from spreading to other buildings near the factory," Hendro Ruswiyanto, chief of the municipal fire agency said. -- JP