BY: Martin A. Sadongdong
Seven stalls in a public market in Taguig City were reduced to ashes when a fire likely caused by short circuit broke out past midnight yesterday, the city’s Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) said.
Chief Inspector Ian Guerrero, BFP-Taguig fire marshal, said the blaze started at a cellphone repair stall located on Luzon Street in Barangay Central Signal at 12:19 a.m.
Initially, the fire was reported to have started at the back portion of a meat shop owned by one Norie Lazarteraga, but firefighters found out that an explosion was first heard by vendors at the cellphone shop where a man was repairing a cellphone unit.
Guerrero said the fire was declared under control at 12:52 a.m. and fire out four minutes later.