KUCHING: A home decor shop owner suffered heavy losses after the storage room caught fire in Jalan Kulas early yesterday.
The alarm was raised around midnight when members of the public spotted smoke billowing from the rear of the shop and alerted the Fire and Rescue Services Department.
Bomba personnel were dispatched to the scene and were able to prevent the situation from becoming worse.
Although the fire was limited to the storage room, the owner estimated losses to be “heavy” as most of the stock was kept there.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
Separately, the guard house at SMK Lake in Bau was reported to have been razed in an early-morning fire yesterday.
The 1.20am incident, which did not result in any injury, also saw two motorcycles parked next to the structure destroyed by the flames.
Fire investigators are probing the cause of the incident.