JULAU, January 31, 2022- A dawn fire completely rendered 77 residents of Rumah Rangsa anak Jimat in Meluan, homeless, a spokesman for the Fire and Rescue Department (BOMBA) in Bintangor said in a statement today.
The Bintangor BOMBA immediately dispatched a fire engine with seven fire fighters to the longhouse upon receiving a distress call about 4.05am on the fire incident.
However, upon arrival one hour later, the 17-door longhouse was completely razed to the ground.
Rumah Rangsa is about 60km away from Bintangor town.
According to operations commander, Nicholas Belulin, there were no reports of human casualties.
He said the residents of the longhouse made efforts but failed to put off the fire from spreading to other doors.
He said the fire was believed to have started from door number 6 before spreading to other doors of the longhouse.
A Proton car was also damaged as the owner did not have time to drive it to a safe place.
