SOME cooking left unattended is believed to have set off the fire that dreadfully cut short the life of a teenage girl on Thursday night at Kg Lambak, Berakas B.
However, further investigations are expected to be carried out by the Royal Brunei Police Force to finalise the findings.
The Year Eight student was said to be asleep in her room when the raging fire swept through the house almost instantaneously. She was identified as Norazwani binti Noorazlan born on March 24, 1997, just 13 days short of her 13th birthday.
Her charred body was discovered by fire fighters inside a room after the fire was extinguished.
Fire fighters from Berakas Fire Station and LambAk Fire Station were called into action around 8.46pm after receiving a distress call. They were joined by BSB Fire Station in their efforts to douse the blazing fire.
The fire was so intense that it took around 42 minutes for fire fighters to bring the blaze under control.
When one of the Fire Engines ran out of water, efforts to combat the inferno were hampered when fire fighters couldn’t find the fire hydrant. It was hidden under a pile of wooden planks and sand. It took five minutes to find the water source according to informed sources
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