~ BorNeO BuLLeTiN ~
~ 12/04/2011 ~
The gutted car.
Traffic came to a crawl along the Beribi road early last night as motorists slowed down to witness a ball of fire that engulfed a saloon car that was driven by a mother with her two-year-old child.
Tina Amiruddin, 24, who is pregnant with her second child, expressed her relief that she and her daughter had managed to escape unscathed despite the fact that the fire had already started when she pulled to the side of the road.
Recalling her experience, she said that she caught a whiff of smoke but thought it originated from somewhere outside and did not realise that the inside of her car was slowly filling up with what was, potentially, poisonous gas.
She realised the fire inside the car approximately one kilometre from the four-junction Telanai traffic lights as she was on the way home to Sengkurong.
Visibly shaken, she said she panicked when she realised that her car was about to burst into flames and hurriedly pulled her daughter out from the one-year-old vehicle. The fire just took five minutes to engulf her car, she added.
Destroyed as well in the fire were some travel documents that were kept inside the car.
Two fire trucks and 10 personnel from the Beribi Fire Station were dispatched to the scene following an 8.38pm distress call and officers were able to put out the fire in about two minutes.
Though the cause of the fire is still not known pending further investigations, Beribi Station Commander, Haji Ahmad Bohari, told the Bulletin that the fire seemed to have originated from the engine and had spread into the cavity of the car, subsequently destroying a significant portion of the vehicle's interior.
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