Blaze razes residential compound
At least five houses are razed by the blaze which hit a residential area along Purok 1, Silverio in Barangay San Isidro, Parañaque City early Sunday morning. Authorities said that the fire started on the second floor of a three-story house.
Photographs courtesy of BFP Parañaque
A fire gutted five homes in the Silverio Compound in Purok 1, Barangay San Isidro, early Sunday morning, displacing more than 30 individuals.
The blaze, which reached the first alarm, started around 5 a.m. Sunday. It was brought under control by over 20 fire trucks shortly after 6 a.m.
One of the residents, Enrique Calin, claimed the fire was caused by a neighbor’s unattended candle after the neighbor’s electricity was cut off.
“The cause was really the candle. Since all the houses here are made of light materials, nothing was left, even our means of livelihood, it was completely gone,” Calin said in Filipino.
Bureau of Fire Protection-Parañaque chief of Operations Fire Senior Inspector Mark Tuto said authorities are verifying the alleged cause of the fire.