Fire breaks out near Al Wathba in Abu Dhabi

Blaze destroys seven houses; no reports of deaths or injuries

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Abu Dhabi: A fire erupted at a labour accommodation near Al Wathba, Abu Dhabi, destroyed seven houses on Friday.  However, no lives were lost in the incident, police said.

Captain Abdullah Hamad Al Tamimi, Head of Customer Service and Public Relations Section at the Directorate General of Civil Defence, praised the Abu Dhabi Civil Defence teams’ swift actions and said that they immediately responded to the call from the operations room at 3.35 pm.

Four teams from the Abu Dhabi Civil Defence managed to douse the blaze and put the situation under control, preventing the fire from spreading to other areas.

Investigations are currently underway to find the cause of the blaze.

Air support teams transferred live images to decision-makers to help them make an accurate decision pertaining to the logistics and the resource distribution.


Maisoon Mubarak is a trainee at Gulf News.
 

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