Fire triggered from Orchid house’s electricity meter board, says MNDF
24 Mar 2011, 12:03 PM
Ahmed Nazeer
The Maldives National Defence Force (MNDF) Fire department has said that investigation into the fatal fire in Orchid this week had revealed that the fire was sparked by a faulty electricity meter board in the house.
‘’The fire started from the meter board and spread, and turned to a huge fire,’’ said the MNDF in a statement, suggesting that the cause of the fire incident was electricity.
MNDF said that the fire department first received the information at 9:21am in the morning, and the fire department attended the area and tried to control the fire at 9:27 am.
At 9:57 that morning, MNDF said that “90 percent” of the fire was under control.
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