Three Tumpat Houses Gone In A Blaze

KOTA BHARU, Oct 13 (Bernama) -- Firemen arrived at the scene in three minutes flat but it was too late to save three wooden houses from a blaze that broke out at Kampung Sri Periuk in Tumpat this evening.

A spokesman for the Kelantan Fire and Rescue Department (JBPM) said they received a call regarding the fire at 5.37 pm before deploying a team which arrived at the village three minutes later.

"Three engines with 16 personnel arrived at the scene at 5.40 pm, only to find that three semi-permanent houses with wooden structures which were built close together were 90 per cent destroyed.

"However, all the occupants of the houses, with an estimated total area of ​​120 square feet, managed to escape and no injuries were recorded," he said when contacted today.

-- BERNAMA