Devastating Fire Breaks Out In Bali’s Busy Seminyak Resort 

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A huge fire has devastated a villa complex in the heart of Bali’s busy resort of Seminyak.

On Thursday evening the fire broke out around 10 pm and within 30-minutes flames had engulfed the entire villa complex with the scene visible throughout the resort of Seminyak and beyond. There have been no reported casualties. 

While all tourists staying at the Amaysa Villas on Jalan Kayu Aya and villa staff have been reported safe and uninjured, many guests have lost all of their belongings to the blaze, including passports, cash, and other travel essentials.

In an interview with the press on Thursday night Kadek Putra, a staff member at the vila, confirmed that the fire was first detected at around 10pm.

He said that all staff jumped into action to try and control the blaze while they waited for fire crews to arrive.

They were able to ensure everyone was evacuated to safety and tried to save some material belongings, too. 

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One eyewitness, who did not disclose his name to reporters, explained, “Everyone managed to run when sparks appeared on the roof of the villa. The material was reeds. We don’t know why yet. The police are still checking. Only there was a fire. We saw sparks that were blown by the wind and hit the roof of the villa. There was no short circuit in the kitchen or bedroom.”

The blaze was brought under control by the Head of the Fire and Rescue Service Team, Komang Guna, and his team of firefighters and 19 fire rescue vehicles.

The financial losses incurred by the property owner and the guests at the villa have yet to be calculated, but they are expected to be in the tens of thousands.

Guna confirmed, “The cause is still being investigated. What is clear is that there were no casualties. It has been extinguished.”

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In an interview conducted on Friday morning, Amaysa Villas guest Rod Blitvich from Perth, Australia, recalled his terrifying experience.

He explained that he woke up to the sound of banging on the door of his villa. Blitvich said, “They wanted us out straightaway. They wouldn’t even let me lock the door. He just pulled me away—once I got outside, I realized why…We did hear a lot of loud fireworks nearby around that time… quite possibly one’s landed on a thatched roof.”

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He and his wife were able to grab their essentials before evacuating to safety, but many guests were unable to do the same.

Blitvich added “We all just stood outside and pavement about 50 meters away for an hour or so, I actually watched the embers in the wind floating from one roof to another roof, and then they would flare up.”

“There was lots of black ash everywhere all over the veranda…. water leaked under the doors into the bedrooms. Everything was very smelly and smoky.”

He concluded “I was able to go back about 1am with my head torch on solar power was out and I was able to get in and get half our stuff and bring it all back to the other villa.”

Fellow guest Alice Bowers told reporters that she had been staying at Amayasa Villas on vacation with her mother and cousin.

She told Australian News TV crews, “We were hearing popping and banging. We thought maybe it was fireworks because people were having a party nearby, and then all of the lights went out and were cut.”

She added, “I came out onto the balcony to see how far the power outage was, and I saw lots of red and orange smoke. I woke my mother up and we put as much as we could into our bags and came down.”

“We thought we had more time but the fire just moved so, so quickly. It jumped from roof to roof and spread very quickly. We were very lucky to get out.”

Tragically this is not the first devastating fire to break out in a hotel in Bali this week. On Sunday evening a blaze broke out in Padangbai decimating the Padangbai Beach Inn Hotel, Kerti Beach Bungalow Hotel, and the Padangbai Billabong Restaurant.

While all guests and staff were evacuated from the buildings without injury, the substantial losses are still being calculated.