Firemen to the rescue of furry friends in Tawau pet shop fire

A fireman carrying a dog from the pet store to a safer location.

KOTA KINABALU: Firemen were called in to save some pets after a fire incident at a pet store in Sabah’s east coast Tawau district.

Firefighters helped rescue 10 cats and a dog that were kept at the shop at Mile 3 of Jalan Apas on Sunday (Sept 25).

Tawau fire station chief Julius John Stephen Jr said a team was rushed to the area after receiving a distress call from a shop staff member at 4.44pm.

It turned out, he said, the shop’s emergency exit sign had somehow caught fire but that only 10% of it had been burned.

“But as a precautionary measure, we took the pets to a safer location outside the shop while we put out the fire and ensured there was no further risk to the shop,” he said, when contacted on Monday (Sept 26).

“The cats and dog were later returned to the shop owner after we fully extinguished the fire,” he added.

The car that turned turtle in the drain in the accident in Ranau

In a separate incident, a 44-year-old man was lucky to have only suffered minor injuries after crashing his car into a ditch located just in front of a police station in the Ranau district shortly after midnight on Monday.

Ranau fire chief Ridwan Mohd Taib said the man had somehow lost control of the car and it landed upside down in the drain.

“The man was given initial treatment by the Emergency Medical Rescue Services (EMRS) team before being handed over to a waiting ambulance to be sent to the district hospital,” he said.