ORMOC CITY– Active response from the local fire station and from the neighboring municipalities resulted in the fast containment of a fire in a residential area in Barangay General Lucban, Bobon, Northern Samar on Monday (July 17) at about 7:04 pm.
Bobon Fire Marshall SFO4 Berolo Villadolis identified the house owner as Christian Mark Tagros, 44.
Fire investigator Fire Officer 2 Randy Pua, disclosed that they have conducted, the fire started at the generator set of the family.
He said that according to the son of the house owner, while he was in his room, he smelled something burning and when he got up, he saw their generator set burning and immediately went out of his room to ask for help.
The house which is a combination of concrete and light materials was quickly conflagrated.
FO2 Pua continued that when they arrived at the scene, the second floor of the house was already engulfed with fire.
The fire was controlled at about 7:35 pm and was totally out at 8 pm.
No one was injured in the fire incident with damage placed at P500,000.(ROBERT DEJON)
