Indonesia/Surabaya – On Wednesday evening, a fire broke out at Tunjungan Plaza, a retail complex on Jl. Embong Malang in Surabaya, East Java.
Indonesia/Surabaya – On Wednesday evening, a fire broke out at Tunjungan Plaza, a retail complex on Jl. Embong Malang in Surabaya, East Java.
The Jarkata Post reported that it is one of the worst incidents in recent times.
After the local fire department received reports that a fire had broken out at one of the plaza’s six malls, the Surabaya 112 Command Center, the city’s emergency response service, said it had deployed a joint response unit involving personnel from the Surabaya Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD), the Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas), the fire department, and the local police.
At 5:30 p.m. local time, 28 fire vehicles were dispatched to the location, along with additional first responders from the Surabaya BPBD, Basarnas, and local police, according to the centre’s Instagram feed.
The situation was chaotic and officers were seen trying to get vehicles to move away from the area.
Structures from the building were seen falling off while many are evacuated from the area.