Mindanaotoday.com | Fire gutted 41 houses in Oro
By: Uriel Quilinguing
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – An hour-long fire razed 41 residential structures at Zone 4, Puerto village in Cagayan de Oro on Monday afternoon, October 31.
Sixty-two families, involving 222 individuals, had to be sheltered at Puerto covered court, the City Information Office (CIO) reported.
The CIO said personnel from the City Social Welfare and Development Department gave food and relief packs, including tents, blankets and mosquito nets to the evacuees. A community kitchen was also set up.
Earlier, Senior Fire Inspector Ely Remegio, Cagayan de Oro City Fire District’s operations section chief, told reporters initial structural damage was P375 thousand for the 20 houses.
Later, the CSWD placed the damage estimate at over P8 million for the 41 mixed-used buildings that went up in smoke.
Remegio said about a dozen fire-trucks from the City Fire District, Cagayan de Oro (Filipino-Chinese) Volunteer Fire Brigade, and Oro Rescue took turns in putting out the blaze.
He said they got the fire call at 2:50 pm, put the fire under control at 3:51 pm, and declared fire out at 4:45 pm.
There was no casualty, except for minor injury of one fire volunteer. (UCQ | MT)
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