Bureau of Fire Protection Senior Inspector Sabrina Talingting says the incident at Barangay 21-C in Quezon Boulevard is the biggest fire in Davao City this year so far.
DAVAO ORIENTAL, Philippines – The Bureau of Fire Protection in Davao City is still investigating the cause of a fire in the city that gutted at least 1,200 residential houses in Barangay 21-C in Quezon Boulevard on Saturday afternoon, February 25.
Talingting said that even though all of the city government’s 16 firetrucks plus volunteer fire trucks of private firms had come together to suppress the fire, it took them almost three hours before they declared a “fire out.” “It is an informal settlers’ area and the roads are so narrow, we were having a hard time suppressing the fire,” Talingting told Rappler on Sunday, February 26.In a public advisory, the city government of Davao said hundreds of fire victims are now taking temporary shelter in a covered court of Barangay 22-C as personnel of the Davao City Social Welfare and Development Office were deployed to extend assistance to the victims.
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