He added that most of the athletes were competing in the sports venues at that time. The area scorched by the fire was around 2 hectares. On a different occasion JSC Security Manager Rusli Nawi said smoke from the fire was seen in the athlete's apartment compound. The governor gave assurances that the fire did not disrupt the Asian Games activities nor the athletes staying in JSC athlete apartment compound. They came here quickly to extinguish the fire," the governor said on location, thanking personnel from the military, police, fire squad, regional disaster mitigation agency and locals. "I appreciate the swift and thorough response of related institutions over the fire here. The governor said the razed fields belonged to residents. Overseen by South Sumatra Governor Alex Noerdin, Indonesian authorities managed to extinguish the fire after deploying fire squad vehicles and five water bomber helicopters to the scene. We are now searching for the perpetrators so that we can find out their motive to burn that area," Zulkarnain said here on Tuesday night. "We have sealed the scorched field with police line as part of our legal process. Suspecting the fire was started intentionally, South Sumatra Police Chief Zulkarnain said that efforts to hunt down the perpetrators were now underway and that intensive measures had been applied around the JSC to prevent fires from occurring again. 22 (Xinhua) - Indonesian police were now hunting down the arsonists behind a fire that recently razed vacated bush fields near the athlete apartments compound at the Asian Games host venue of Jakabaring Sports City (JSC).
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