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Fire at Jakarta Police HQ allegedly caused by electrical short circuit
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The Jakarta Police headquarters in South Jakarta catches fire on Saturday, April 7, 2018. (Courtesy of South Jakarta Fire and Rescue Agency/-)
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outh Jakarta Fire and Rescue Agency head Irwan said the fire on Saturday afternoon at the Jakarta Police headquarters in South Jakarta was allegedly caused by an electrical short circuit.
It took around an hour for firefighters to extinguish the flames at Jakarta Police headquarters' Human Resource Bureau building in South Jakarta on Saturday afternoon. The six fire trucks that were deployed to put out the fire arrived at the scene some 30 minutes after the flame had sparked.
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“By the time the firefighters arrived, thick smoke had engulfed some of the rooms in the building,” he said as quoted by kompas.com on Saturday, adding that the blaze had caused the Jakarta Police to suffer Rp 125 million (US$9,000) in losses.
Another building at the Jakarta Police headquarters had also caught fire in 2011. The resulting fire burned down the Vehicle Document Registration Center building. (vla)
