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Afternoon fire razes workers’ living quarters

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Firefighters putting out the blaze.

MIRI: Fire razed three blocks of workers’ living quarters at a construction site in Jalan Pujut 7, here today (Feb 18).

There were no reports of casualties as all 20 residents living in the quarters managed to escape the blaze unharmed.

The State Fire and Rescue Department operations centre received a distress call on the incident at 1.47pm and a team of firefighters from Lopeng Fire and Rescue Station was rushed to the scene.

“Upon arrival, it was reported that the fire involved non-permanent structures of three workers’ living quarters, comprising 60 doors which were totally burned.

“The fire was brought under control at 2.07pm,” the operations centre said in a statement.

The cause of the fire and loss to properties are yet to be ascertained.

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