Firetruck tangled in telecoms cables en route to Pagadian City blaze

A concrete post fell on the cabin of a firetruck after it caught up with telecoms cables in Pagadian City. | PHOTO: Edwin Alcoriza

PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur–A firetruck sent to put out a blaze in Barangay Dumagoc here on Tuesday morning was stopped on its track by telecommunications cables.

The firetruck’s nozzle caught the wires as it was negotiating a narrow alley in Balangasan District, pulling down a concrete post that fell on its cabin.

Chief Inspector Edgar Quitoy, city fire marshal, said there was no delay in their response as a second firetruck, which convoyed with the first, proceeded to Dumagoc to put out the fire inside a compound of farm animals.

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Quito said a rescue team from the local government pulled out the fallen post and restored the sagging cables, hence, they were able to recover the firetruck.