Investigators : Unattended lamp possible cause of Labangon fire

Pegeen Maisie Sararaña and Paul Lauro 02/17/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines — An unattended lighted metal oil lamp could have started the fire on Feb. 16 that destroyed 15 houses in A. Lopez Street in Barangay Labangon, Cebu City. Fire Officer (FO3) Fulbert Navarro, investigator…

Paknaan fire razes 2 houses; unattended lamp eyed

Norman V. Mendoza 01/26/2018

Fire investigators are looking at an unattended lighted kerosene lamp or a lighted cigarette butt to have caused an early Friday morning fire that destroyed two houses in Barangay Paknaan in Mandaue City. SFO1 Noel Codilla, Mandaue…

RETURN P43.95M

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Inquirer 02/15/2017

A controversy of the past continues to haunt government officers in Cebu. The Commission on Audit (COA) has ordered officials of the Department of Public Works and Highways in Central Visayas (DPWH-7) to return the P43.95 million…

Solar-and-wind-powered street lamps anyone?

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 01/26/2017

Outside Cebu City Hall, there stands a futuristic looking tower which has a revolving metal piece on top. The equipment is actually a lamppost powered by both solar and wind energy, said Department of Public Services (DPS)…

Fire damages 23 houses in Talisay

Nestle L. Semilla 12/21/2016

SOME 23 houses were damaged by fire that hit Sitio Magay in Barangay Tangke, Talisay City on Tuesday evening. A toppled gas lamp in the house of Gemma Gasalatan was suspected to have caused the fire that…

Eternal flame

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 08/06/2016

The kerosene lamp lit up the nights of my childhood. Electricity came to our town only years after I, then in my late teens, had left home. We had to make do with the Petromax, a brand…

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