Fire at Paper Factory near Autocity.

I just bought a walkie talkie from a friend few days ago..not cheap but it's for a purpose. It seems that there's a few group of "volunteer" communities (Talkies) that is using this talkie to communicate with each other to catch thiefs..big and small. When there's some suspicious activity or suspects, talkies will follow in groups, check out the suspects car/bike's plate number to see if they're stolen property, round them up to place them in police custody. In short, talkies are running towards what we are running away from..the criminals.

But today - 4th of March, I heard the "talkies" help our Bomba to fight fire that broke out near Autocity. The distress call started around 3pm. I even saw thick smoke and flown paper debris from as far as Bukit Mertajam. Since I was near & out of curiousity, I went to have a look.

On site they are helping to divert traffic, coordinate to call volunteer fire fighters from Raja Uda; Permatang Pauh; Permatang Tinggi; Berapit; Bukit Mertajam and also as far as Penang island, diverting them to site, find water source for the fire fighters, basically acting as helping hand around the area. In time of chaos and panic, with Bomba & Police & Ambulance, the talkies are acting as the coordinator. I even helped out in diverting traffic for a while :D

As at 1am, I can still hear talkies in action..it seems that the fire is under control but not out yet. Mind you, the factory stores a lot of flammable papers at the warehouse.

Hope to see more of them around..the talkies that is :D

A Talkie showed Bomba the way..



On site..