Boy, it hasn’t been a good week for emergency personnel.
Barely three days after a fire broke out at the Sultan Aminah Hospital in Johor Baru, an ambulance reportedly caught fire at a traffic light junction in Kuala Kangsar on Wednesday night.
According to The New Straits Times, the ambulance was reportedly on its way back to Ipoh at around 8.50pm when the vehicle suddenly caught fire.
A Kuala Kangsar Fire and Rescue Department spokesman told the daily that the department received a distress call at 8.59pm and seven firemen reportedly rushed to the scene.
“We managed to control the fire about three minutes later. The two hospital staff inside the ambulance escaped unhurt.
“There were no patients in the ambulance,” the spokesperson was quoted as saying.
The spokesperson also added that the cause of the fire is currently being investigated.
On Tuesday, six patients perished in a fire which broke out in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Sultan Aminah Hospital.
Then on Wednesday, another fire reportedly broke out at the hospital’s emergency and trauma ward, just a floor below the ICU which caught fire a day before.
