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round 70 houses and three motorcycles owned by garbage collectors were razed in a fire in Pondok Bambu, Duren Sawit, East Jakarta, on Monday morning.

The fire was allegedly caused by an electrical short circuit.

The incident occurred when the garbage collectors were out sorting trash at temporary trash disposal sites (TPS) on Jl. Kejaksaan, also in East Jakarta. No casualties were reported in the incident.

Jamal, a resident, thought the fire was a result of trash burning by other residents.

“At first it was just a [little] smoke, but then it got bigger. It turned out that it was the garbage collector’s houses located at the back of Pondok Bambu TPS that were on fire,” Jamal said as quoted by beritajakarta.com.

East Jakarta’s Fire and Rescue Agency deployed 12 fire trucks to the blaze.

“It took us around one hour to bring the fire under control,” operations head of the fire agency, Gatot Sulaiman, said.