Two persons died while a senior citizen was injured in a fire in Purok Bayanihan, 6th Road, Barangay Taculing on Monday, April 17. ManilaBulletin
A STROKE patient and her four-year-old daughter died while a senior citizen was injured in a fire that gutted eight houses in Barangay Taculing, Bacolod City on Monday, April 17. Killed in the fire were 37-year-old Mengel Itchon, a stroke victim, and her four-year-old daughter, whose name was withheld. Injured was Arthuro Aplacador, 84.
Chief Insp. Stephen Jardeleza, city fire marshal, said that tricycle driver Nickel Aplacador had just left his house for work when the blaze broke out from their kitchen around 8:47 a.m.He said that Itchon and her daughter were trapped when the fire spread to their house and Itchon failed to get out as she was half-paralyzed.The victims had no companions at home as they all left for work that morning, he added.
Mayor Alfredo Abelardo “Albee” Benitez here, who visited the fire scene, said they will assess the city to identify possible fire-prone areas. Benitez, in a press briefing on Monday, said they will take extra measures to prevent the same incident from happening. “We will focus on prevention, rather than to think what assistance we can give. That will be the direction that we will be taking. It should not happen again,” he added.
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