Fire

On our first morning in Kuching (first morning in Borneo, in fact) we saw the headlines of a local newspaper saying that a fire during the night had destroyed 7 shops. A couple of hours later, we followed the smoke column to a row of shops on the river, just beyond the area we’d walked the night before.

A fire truck blocked most of the road, but that didn’t stop onlookers from standing close, checking out the action. Already 10 hours since it began, the firemen were still hosing down the smouldering remains, dodging the onlookers (or shopkeepers?) who were picking through the rubble.

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