Fire rages in QC compound, fourth alarm up

Fire rages in QC compound

FIRE REPORT. Captain Domingo dela Cruz of Quezon City’s Bureau of Fire Protection is interviewed by media on the details of the fire that broke out in the village of Unang Sigaw in Balintawak Thursday, October 18, 2012. Video by INQUIRER.net’s Noy Morcoso III

MANILA, Philippines – A fire broke out at a residential compound in Quezon City Thursday and the alarm has been raised to the fourth level, a city fire officer said.

Senior Fire Officer 2 Albert Flores said the fire blazed through a still undetermined number of houses at Gana Compound along Quirino Highway in Barangay (village) Unang Sigaw in Balintawak before 10 a.m.

The fourth alarm was raised at 10:08 a.m.

No immediate reports of casualties and injuries have reached their office, Flores said.

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