KUWAIT CITY, June 13: The Kuwait Fire Force announced Monday evening that five of its brigades had controlled a fire that broke out earlier in the day in a number of wood stores in the Khuwaisat area, without causing any injuries.

In a statement issued by the Public Relations and Media Department, the Fire Department said that a report was received by the Central Operations Department Monday evening stating that a fire broke out in a number of warehouses in one of the private restrooms in the Khuwaisat area.

It added that the Central Operations Department directed five firefighting teams to the site of the accident, to find out upon arrival that the fire broke out in warehouses containing wood, hazardous materials, oils, gas cylinders, batteries, and flammable petroleum and chemical materials, to start combating and besieging it because it did not spread to other warehouses.

It explained that storing these materials in large quantities at the site made the firefighters face difficulty in the control process, which came with the follow-up of the First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Interior and Acting Minister of Defense Sheikh Talal Khaled Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, through communication with the head of the Kuwait Fire Force, Lieutenant General Khaled Al- Mekrad. (KUNA)