Ignited Spirits
Not owning a fire engine has not dampened the brigade's determination to protect their community from fire in West Kalimantan. Carrying their pumps on their shoulders for 25 kilometers is not unusual.
October 26, 2011
A SIREN blared throughout the busy market during an afternoon in Galing, a district of Sambas, West Kalimantan. In the calamity, a group of youths wearing orange-colored uniforms rushed out of their 3 x 4-meter fire station with equipment to extinguish the blaze. As they hurried to the scene, some of the men stumbled while heaving the pump on their shoulder. Unlike other fire brigades, this pump is not transported by a car or a motorbike, but by
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