Fire investigators ruled out that the recent fire in barangay Mambaling was caused by a butane canister explosion.
SFO4 Roylin Maratas, fire investigator, said that Nelson Padica executed an affidavit that the fire started with a ceiling fan in their room.
The fire started in the house of Lynda Campaner.
Padica is the live-in partner of Campaner’s daughter, Rosalie.
Padica told investigator that while he was with his child at the terrace, a neighbor called his attention because smoke was coming out of their room.
When he checked, he saw their ceiling fan already on fire.
Padica said the family doesn’t use a butane stove in the kitchen.
Nobody was also cooking when the fire broke out in midmorning.
At least 150 families in sitios Puntod and Abya were left homeless by the blaze.