Fire hits coal-fired power plant in Bataan

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MARIVELES, Bataan — A fire broke out early Sunday, Dec. 17, at the coal-fired power plant in Barangay Alas-asin in this town, authorities said.

In a statement, Arcel Madrid, assistant vice president for community relations at GNPower Mariveles Energy Center Ltd. Co., said the plant’s units 1 and 2 had been shut down since Sunday after the suspension of coaling of bunkers caused by “spontaneous combustion that occurred at the crusher house.”

So far, the power situation in Bataan has remained normal.

Madrid said this was the first time that a fire broke out at the power plant.

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No other details were provided by the plant management, except that the fire was put out by the local Bureau of Fire Protection and firefighters from nearby towns. INQ