PRESENT POINT POWER

ABOVE: The whole of the 4th Floor (at the height of fire) was destroyed: BELOW: The burning inferno through a window

ABOVE: The brightly lit yellow fire; BELOW: The black smoke emitted during the fire

ABOVE: A firemen with the help of the Sky-lift dousing the fire with jets of water; BELOW: Fire under control after almost 1-1/2 hour

Firemen rushed to the 5-storey Wisma Tatt Khalsa building situated along Jalan Raja Bot and Lorong Raja Bot in Chow Kit area shortly after 8.06 pm on Saturday.

ABOVE: Daring roof-top rescue with the help of the Sky-lift (for victims who escaped from the 4th floor); BELOW: A frightened resident being helped onto the the lift

ABOVE & BELOW: One by one, they scrambled down the Sky-Lift

25 people were on the 4^th Floor of when the fire broke out and who made their way to the rooftop were rescued. 15 of those rescued were sent to KL Hospital when they complained of breathing problems.

ABOVE: The rescue personnel at ground zero directing the fire fighting and rescue operation; BELOW: The injured being wheeled to the 10 waiting ambulances

ABOVE: The scared and injured residents being help out: BELOW: Mopping operation to cool down the burnt floor
BELOW: The smoldering fire after being doused with water

10 fires engines from Jalan Hang Tuah, Sentul, Chow Kit and Setapak rushed to the scence and a total 87 fire personnel were deployed. The fire was brought under control after one and a half hours and 20 ambulances arrived to take the injured to hospital.

ABOVE: The helpless residents who escaped from the lower floors stood by to watch; BELOW: The waiting stretcher by the roadside

And some MORE details from the STAR, Sunday 1^st Oct 06

25 rescued from rooftop in blaze

KUALA LUMPUR: Twenty-five people were rescued by firemen using a sky-lift from the rooftop of the blazing five-storey Wisma Tatt Khalsa in Chow Kit here last night.
There was no casualty reported in the fire, which damaged the fourth and fifth floors of the building.

The 25 – aged from 25 to 60, including several Indian nationals, one of whom was a pregnant woman – were in a hostel on the fifth floor when they spotted thick smoke billowing from the floor below.
They climbed to the rooftop of the building and waited for firemen to rescue them. Fifteen of them were then taken to Kuala Lumpur Hospital where they were treated for minor injuries and smoke inhalation.
Indian national Paramjeet Kaur, 27, who is three months' pregnant, said: “We had just finished our prayers when we saw the thick smoke and soon we could not see anything. I heard my husband calling out to me to grab his hand. “Within minutes, we were on the rooftop and later the firemen on a sky-lift rescued us.”
The fire was believed to have started in a storeroom at about 7.30pm and it was put out at about 9.45pm.

Wisma Tatt Khalsa is located within the compound of the Gurdwara Sahib Tatt Khalsa Diwan – the largest Sikh temple in South-East Asia – at Jalan Raja Alang.

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