Boy, 3, dead in Quezon town fire
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LUCENA CITY – A three-year-old boy died on Tuesday (March 14) in a fire that gutted his house in Infanta town, Quezon province.
The Quezon police, in a report Wednesday (March 15), said that the blaze struck the house of Arlene Jumantoc, 49, in Barangay (village) Tudturan at 2:26 a.m.
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One of the house occupants, Renzo Ace Ruanto, who was sleeping, was left inside one of the rooms during the commotion and was later found dead from the fire.
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Jumantoc sustained injuries while the four other house occupants were left unharmed. It was not specified how Ruanto was related to the residents of the house.
According to investigations, a lit a candle was left unattended, causing the fire.
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