A fire gutted a carpentry business in Al Muairad area of Ras Al Khaimah on Wednesday afternoon, with no casualties reported.
An official at the Civil Defence Department in RAK said the firefighters and rescue teams were dispatched to the site once the operations room was notified of the incident. The civil defence team found that the flames had reached an adjacent furniture shop and immediately started to extinguish the fire and prevent it from spreading to other shops.
The cause of the fire has not been identified.
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