CAPIZ FORUM
Damages pegged at P1.2 million
BY FELIPE V. CELINO
ROXAS City — Fire razed the 24-year-old building of an orphanage in Brgy. Lonoy here on Saturday.
The fire broke out about 4:30 a.m., starting from the second floor of the St. Joseph Orphanage, Fire Officer 2 Marlon Garbo, arson investigator of the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) here, said.
It could have been due to a ceiling fan that overheated, according to Garbo.
It took the BFP an hour to put out the fire with the assistance of the different fire stations in the province, Garbo said.
Fire officials pegged the damages at P1.2 million.
No one got hurt among the 25 children — three of them were babies — in the orphanage.
A certain Christian Chu along with four other residents near the orphanage rescued some of the children.
The blaze had already spread when some of the caretakers and orphan children returned from attending a dawn Mass in nearby Brgy. Loctugan.
The children were temporarily transferred to the St. Avila Parish dormitory, also an orphanage run by Dominican sisters, also in Brgy. Loctugan.
Fire officials are considering other factors that might have triggered the fire./PN
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