Two firefighters extinguishing the fire at the office of Galaxy Piling Construction, yesterday.
LABUAN: A fire broke out at the office of Galaxy Piling Construction Sdn Bhd located at Jalan Bebuloh, Kampung Belukut here yesterday and destroyed almost 50 per cent of the building.
Labuan Fire and Rescue Department spokesperson, Jason Bilin said that their operation room received the distressed call around 9.26am reporting the incident.
“Soon after receiving the call, we deployed our personnel to extinguish the fire where we managed to control the flames before 10am.
“Unfortunately, the fire was too strong and quick to burn the office building,” he said, adding that there was no victims or human injury reported in the incident.
When asked about the cause of the fire, Bilin said that it was still under investigation and some samples from the building would be sent to Kota Kinabalu for further investigation.