Sitoy-Cho intensifies crackdown against refilled butane canisters

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Norman V. Mendoza 05/06/2017

Cordova Mayor Mary Therese Sitoy-Cho has ordered the police to confiscate all refilled butane canisters in the municipality. Last Wednesday and Thursday’s fire, believed to have started from a leaky butane canister, razed more than 40 houses,…

10 nabbed in raid on butane refilling plant

Intern 02/24/2017

Ten persons, including two 17-year-old minors, were arrested in a raid on a butane refilling plant in Talisay City, Cebu. The raid was conducted by a joint team from the Central Visayas regional offices of the Criminal…

Provincial Board to also ban refilled butane canisters

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 08/27/2016

CITING recent accidents, the Cebu Provincial Board (PB) may yet pass an ordinance banning the refilling of butane canisters as well as its transport and sale all over the province. The proposal by PB member Glenn Bercede,…

Butane canisters spark road fire, calls to ban refilling renewed

Carmel Loise Matus, Rabboni Centino Borbon, Rene F. Alima 08/11/2016

A delivery truck loaded with butane canisters exploded early morning yesterday at the South Coastal Road near the South Road Properties (SRP) after it rammed into a school bus, leaving behind a trail of destruction which a…

CHEAP BUT RISKY

Marc Eric Cosep and Jose Santino S. Bunachita 11/07/2015

Why it’s dangerous to misuse butane canisters as LPG refills First, a fresh wave of public warnings. Next step, a “massive confiscation” of butane canisters that are refilled with cooking gas. This action was agreed yesterday in…

No guidelines, no charges against butane outlet owner

Apple Ta-as, Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Vanessa Claire Lucero 11/05/2015

No charges will be filed against the homeowner whose eight employees were injured in an explosion caused by leaked butane canisters in Greyhound Subdivision, barangay Kinasang-an Pardo, Cebu City last Tuesday. “The fire was immediately put out.…

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