MindanaoToday.com | Fire turns six houses to ashes
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – An hour-long blaze broke out at sitio Kolambog, Barangay Lapasan this city shortly past noon Tuesday, September 17, leaving mounds of ash from what were once six residential two-level structures constructed close to each other.
Three persons needed medical attention, but there was no fatality, Fire Inspector Louis Roy Solamo told reporters who were at the ground zero.
Solamo, a newly-installed chief of the Lapasan Fire Station, placed the estimated damage to structures at P450 thousand.
Aside from eight fire trucks from the Bureau of Fire Protection, there were five others from volunteer groups who responded.
He said a reliable source testified that the fire originated from the second-floor of a semi-concrete building owned by Demicillo family.
One family member, who tried to put out the fire from the kitchen, was among those who sustained burns on her hand.
Solamo said there could be over a dozen families that were displaced by the fire, many of them were resting spaces.
The fire reached third alarm before it was declared fire out at 1:38 pm. Firefighters were at the scene at 12:17 pm.
Aside from six totally damaged structures, six other nearby houses need repairs. (Uriel Quilinguing/MT)
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