Eleven escape unhurt as fire destroys 50-year-old shophouses in Rompin
ROMPIN: Eleven people escaped unhurt before a fire destroyed a row of six half-a-century-old wooden shophouses along Jalan Besar Bandar Lama here yesterday.
At 9pm in Rompin, a fire engulfed a cluster of six ancient wooden shophouses that had stood along Jalan Besar for half a century. The blaze, which broke out at 9pm, claimed the lives of all six shop lots, including an electrical service shop, a store, a residential unit, a hair salon that shared space with a fruit shop, and two grocery stores.
Remarkably, the fire's fury spared the lives of the eleven individuals, including five women, who found themselves trapped inside the burning premises. Zulfadli Zakaria of the Pahang Fire and Rescue Department reported that the Rompin Fire and Rescue Station personnel reached the scene at 9.08pm to battle the flames. The arrival of firefighters from the Nenasi station in Pekan and the Endau station in Johor provided additional support in controlling the fire and curbing its potential spread.
Despite their relentless efforts, the blaze was finally subdued at 11.50pm. The origin of the fire and the extent of the damage were still under investigation as of today.
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