BUKIT MERTAJAM – Twenty-three motorcycles and an ATV were destroyed in a fire at a motorcycle workshop in Kg Guar Perahu, here early today.
However, there were no casualties reported.
A spokesman at the Penang operations centre of the Fire and Rescue Department said the department received a distress call at 3.18am and a team from the Penanti Fire and Rescue station was sent to the scene.
“Upon arrival, the team found that the fire involved a motorcycle workshop with an area of 600 sq ft and that the fire was raging with a percentage of destruction at the time being 70%. The fire also destroyed 23 motorcycles and an ATV which were in the workshop,” he said here today.
He said the fire was completely doused at 5.50am today and the department was investigating the cause of the fire and loss incurred. – February 8, 2024