"Alhamdulillah (Thank God), there were no casualties," the agency's head, Satriadi Gunawan, said.
Shortly after the fire broke out around 06.25 a.m. local time, the agency deployed its personnel and fire trucks to the location.
The flames were completely extinguished at 11:51 AM after 103 personnel, assisted by 21 fire trucks, were deployed to the damaged building, Gunawan said.
Jakarta's Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) Head Isnawa Adji previously suggested that a short circuit may have ignited the fire at the Bakamla building.
Jakarta has experienced several deadly and catastrophic fires over the past three years.
On the evening of April 18, 2024, seven people lost their lives in a fire at a shop building in the Mampang Prapatan neighborhood of South Jakarta. Their bodies were discovered in a second-story room of the building. The fire also injured five others.
On March 3, 2023, a major fire at the Plumpang Pertamina Depot in the Koja sub-district of North Jakarta claimed 33 lives.
Another fire on October 22, 2022, razed several homes in Pademangan sub-district, North Jakarta, resulting in the deaths of three people, including a 28-year-old woman and her two children, aged 10 and 5, according to local police.
On February 26, 2022, a fire engulfed two buildings in Kebayoran Lama, South Jakarta, claiming the lives of three people: a 37-year-old woman, her three-year-old son, and a three-month-old baby, according to the local fire department.
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