JOHOR BARU: A restaurant and a hardware shop in Taman Pulai Indah near Skudai were badly damaged during an early morning fire.
Skudai fire and rescue station chief Saifulbahri Safar, who is also the operation commander, said that Johor Fire and Rescue Department operations centre received a distress call of a fire involving two business premises at around 1.11am on Thursday (Feb 27) morning.
He added 18 firemen from Skudai and Iskandar Puteri stations, together with four assets such as a fire rescue tender, a compact fire rescue tender, an emergency medical rescue service and a 4WD were deployed to the scene.
“When we reached the place at around 1.25am, a restaurant and a hardware shop were on fire,” he said here on Thursday.
Saifulbahri said firemen managed to put out the fire by 3.55am.
He added 90% of the restaurant was damaged while the hardware shop suffered about 50% in damage.
No injuries were reported while the cause of the fire is being investigated, Saifulbahri said.
