In Kuala Lumpur, a man was desperate to save a woman from her burning car did not work out as planned because the petrol attendants refused to lend him their fire extinguishers even after everything that he had said to them. The incident happened at 3.30am on Thursday involving the woman's Perodua Myvi, a Toyota Vios and a lorry on the flyover along Jalan Cheras near Jalan Loke Yew, caused the Myvi to catch fire. The earliest to arrive on the scene was Teo Chai Yong who is 31 years old. After he had saw the accident, he called the emergency hotline operator, while he was on the phone, he heard frightened screams shouting "Tolong! Tolong! Help me!" from the woman who was in the Myvi. He saw sparks flew under her car. Teo quickly went to a 24-hour petrol station hopng that he could find a fire extinguisher to help the woman in the Myvi. As he ran up to the paying counter, he saw four fire extinguishers behind the glass door and a attendant was on the other side. He has asked the attendant to let him have the fire extinguisher and screamed what had happened to him. After he had said everything that was going on, about the woman who was pinned inside a burning car, the attendant just stared at him and he kept on saying that heis not allowed to open the door after hours. Teo grew desperate, so he offered to buy the fire extingguishers and even showed the attendant his identity card. Shortly after that, a second attendant showed up beside te first attendant and he told Teo if there was a fire, call the fire department. Teo was frustrated and he rushed back to the scene, only to see the car with the woman still inside was burning. He added tha he only could watch, she was still screaming but he could not do anything. Her screams grew more frantic before it had faded away. BH Petrol's managing director Tan Kim Thiam, expressed regret over the incident and he said that the staffs were concerned because robberies were common in those hours and he declined to comment any further.
The woman who was burned beyond recognition and her personal indentification documents were lost in the fire. City traffic police investigations chief Deputy Supt Abdullah Roning said that they believed she was a 27 year old college student from Sarawak. The driver of the Toyota Vios and his girlfriend were also seriously injured and were rushed to Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. The case is being investigated under Section 41 (1) of the Road Transport Act 1987 for reckless or dangerous driving.
I heard about this tragic story when my mother and I were in the car, my mother told me this story and I noticed that her voice cracked, it showed that she was sad that a case like this had happened, she have always told me to be careful when I drove, so when her voice cracked, I can imagine that she was thinking as though as that girl was me. I went home and I went and read this article. It is just devastating that the man could not help her. He is a good man for trying but if the attendants had let him use the fire extinguishers, things would have been much different for the student. In my opinion, the attendant should have found out what was happening before he had made a conclusion to not give the fire extinguishers to him. I know that he was concerned but it would not have killed him to actually find out whether what this man was saying to him was true, because of that, a life had been lossed.
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