Ironically the fire was believed to have started about 8 o'clock in the kitchen area of the wooden house belonging to a fireman attached to the Tabuan Jaya fire station before spreading to the adjoining house owned by a former army personnel who is also related to the fireman's wife.
Before the fire started the fireman and his wife were attending a church service, leaving two of their three children at home alone, while the ex-army, his wife and their three sons had just finished having dinner.According to the wife, she was was cleaning the dishes at the back of her house when she caught the smell of smoke coming from next door and looked up to see the kitchen area on fire.
She immediately shouted to her husband who was watching television together with his children in the living room.
The sight of their burning houses proved too much for the victims while relatives who wailed out loud and fainted on several occasions.Fire fighters from Tabuan Jaya, Batu Lintang and Padungan fire stations arrived at the scene to douse the blaze but their efforts were hampered by low water pressure coupled with a non-functioning fire hydrant, located quite far from the burning houses.
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