CAMP RUPERTO KANGLEON, PALO, Leyte- A fire incident in one of the public elementary schools in Ormoc City gutted four classrooms and a house located just at the back of the school.
FO1 Ruby Fajardo of the Ormoc City Fire Office said that blaze affected the Cogon Central School at about 5:10 am on Friday which resulted for four of its classrooms to be burned down.
The blaze spread to a house located at the back of the said school. No one was injured due to the incident.
Fajardo said that the fire incident was contained at about 5:39 am with the cause of the incident has yet to be determine by the fire investigators as of press time.
The school, located about a kilometer away from the city proper, is one of the biggest elementary schools in Ormoc with 890 enrolled pupils and with 27 teachers.
Fajardo also said that the damage caused by the fire has yet to be determine. (PNP-8 with reports, JOEY A. GABIETA)