Blaze in fire-prone area in QC leaves 60 families homeless

Residents look at the remains of their houses after a big fire hit Agham Road in Quezon City on Monday night, displacing 60 families. —EDWIN BACASMAS

A fire broke out at a crowded residential area in front of the Philippine Science High School in Quezon City on Monday, leaving 60 families homeless.

According to Senior Supt. Manuel Manuel, city fire marshal, the blaze began at the second floor of a house owned by Janet Comora on Agham Road in Sitio San Roque, Barangay Bagong Pag-asa.

It reached the fifth alarm just minutes after 11:35 p.m.
Firemen declared that they had put it out shortly before 1 a.m. on Tuesday.

Manuel said the blaze destroyed at least 30 houses with damage to property placed at P400,000. No one was reported injured or killed.

Monday’s fire was not the first in the area. In January 2014, a blaze that reached the third alarm destroyed several houses while 150 families were displaced in another fire in April 2012.

Investigators have yet to say what caused the most recent fire.