Fire devours store in Bayugan City [update with video]
Not less than 1 million pesos worth of properties and goods were turned into ash, when one of the biggest grocery stores in Bayugan City caught by fire last December 21.
William Marketing Store was devoured by fire at around 11:45 a.m. last Saturday according to SFO3 Eduardo Jumamoy of Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) of Bayugan City. The fire was confined at 2:20 a.m. and total fire out at around 5 in the morning.
The BFP team had a hard time to extinguish the fire because of the products that the store sell like paints, thinners, liquors, etc.
According to the initial investigation of FO3 Ernesto Calumpag, the fire started at the ground floor specifically at the hardware display section of the store. But the cause of fire is under investigation yet.
Fortunately, the family members and the storekeepers living in that store were all safe and none of them were injured. And also that, no other establishments were caught by fire because of the firewall of the building.
According SFO3 Jumamoy, they saw empty shells of fire extinguishers and they suspected that before the people leave the building, they tried to stop the fire using the fire extinguishers.
The incident was raised to 2nd alarm were BFP of municipalities of Esperanza, Sibagat, Prosperidad and the Search and Rescue Agusan del Sur (SARAS) of the province immediately responded to the area.
Doubts
The reason why BFP Bayugan responded at around 12:37 a.m. was because they were called at 12:35 a.m. by the Amateur Radio Agusan del Sur (ARAS). And according to ARAS personnel, they did not receive any calls from the people on that area. And despite the fact that the office of ARAS/SARAS is near the incident, still they can’t immediate detect the fire because they are blocked by the RD pawnshop building. And the fire was detected late by the people outside and the guard of the building.
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