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Sunday, December 28, 2003
Blaze left 30 families homeless in Pasay City
By Miko Santos
AT LEAST 30 families were rendered homeless as a five-and-a-half hour fire razed their homes in Pasay City late Thursday night.
Fire Officer 3 Renato Rector said the fire started at around 11:25 p.m. from a house occupied by one Carlos Tolentino at 131 Inocencio street.
Rector said 13 classrooms of the Padre Zamora Elementary School located at the back of the house were also affected by the blaze.
Some P2 million worth of property was lost to the blaze, which was declared under control at 2 a.m. and out three hours later, the arson prober said.
Rector said flames had spread quickly because the area is densely populated. "Di naman squatter's area, pero dikit-dikit talaga yung mga bahay."
"We are confirming reports that the fire sparked from lighted candles and gas lamps," said Rector.
Rector added that no one was reported hurt during the blaze.
Six hours earlier, the shanty of Lourdes Moran along Del Pan bridge in Tondo was damaged when faulty electrical wiring sparked an eight-minute blaze.
At 2:50 p.m., an hour-long fire hit a warehouse at the corner of Paterno Street and Quezon Boulevard in Quiapo and destroyed half-a-million pesos in property.
Reports said the blaze began at the third floor of the warehouse, which is used by an electric fan dealer.
The fire in Quiapo snarled traffic for an hour as firefighters battled the flames.
More than an hour earlier, children playing with fireworks caused a 10-minute blaze that destroyed the door of a house along Soriano Street, Tondo, at 1:24
p.m.
Probers said the children were playing with a firecracker called a "trianggulo" when it exploded on the door.
And at 12:43 p.m., another fire hit the second floor of the house of Sisenando Bruce Lango, 57, at Bagac Street, Manugid, Tondo.
(December 28, 2003 issue)
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