Two fires hit neighborhood

Two fires broke out in a Mandaue City neighborhood within 14 hours.

A six-year-old child was rescued after sustaining second degree burns in a fire in Hernan Cortes Street in barangay Subangdaku  yesterday morning.

Irvy John Castardo was  sleeping in a hammock when  fire broke out around 8:15 a.m. yesterday.

Romeo Castardo together with his wife and children rushed out to safety.

Romeo  later noticed that his youngest son was missing. He braved intense heat as he went back to get Irvy John.

Aside from the house of the Castardo’s which also doubles as an  upholstery shop, the fire also gutted the houses of Nicolas Ouano and Winifredo Escoto.

Irvy John  was immediately brought to Mandaue City Hospital for treatment.

Around 7 p.m. last Sunday,  fire broke out in Semense Compound, sitio Mount Pinatubo in barangay Tipolo, just about 50 meters from the Subangdaku fire.

SFO1 Cipriano Codilla, fire investigator of Mandaue City Fire Department said the fire started in the house of Conchita Bongo and spread to seven other houses.

Also damaged were two jeepneys owned by Julian Arpon and two multicabs owned by Ouano.

Ouano whose house burned yesterday morning had his multicabs parked in the Semense Compound when the fire broke out last Sunday evening. /Jucell Marie P. Cuyos, Reporter