KUCHING: A bedroom in a semi-detached house at Jalan Matang Jaya here was destroyed in a pre-dawn fire yesterday.
Fortunately, no casualties or injuries were reported.
A spokesman for the Fire and Rescue Department (Bomba) said the incident happened around 4.20am and a team of firemen from Petra Jaya station were despatched to the scene.
“When the team arrived, the house was filled with smoke and the bedroom was completely alight. The fire was confined to the bedroom,” he said.
The fire was put out by 5.10am and the house was 30 percent damaged.
The cause of the fire and the total loss of the property from the incident are still being investigated.
