The coffee shop that was destroyed by fire yesterday morning.
TAWAU: Quick action by firemen prevented a predawn fire that destroyed a coffee shop from spreading to other shops, including an adjacent shop selling cooking gas cylinders, at Hill Top yesterday morning.
Had the fire spread to the gas dealer’s shop, an entire row of shops at the area could have been razed.
District Fire and Rescue Department station chief Mohd Razali Awang Ahmad said the fire occurred at about 4am and the department sent two teams of eight personnel to the scene.
He said the firemen reached the scene at 4.21am and immediately started fighting the fire from the front and rear of the shop.
Mohd said quick action by the firemen prevented the fire from spreading to a shop selling cooking gas cylinders next to the shop that had caught fire.
He said the fire was put under control at 4.48am and the operation ended at 5.46am while the cause of the fire and losses were still being investigated.