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Neighbors suspect stove, butane can explosion Three persons were injured and 122 families were displaced by yesterday’s fire that broke out in barangay Mambaling, Cebu City at 9:30 a.m. Neighbors were talking about a household explosion caused…
Wa nako matingala dihang gianunsiyo ni Gov. Junjun Davide nga iyang ipataktak sa serbisyo pinaagi sa pagputol na sa kontrata isip job order employee si Dra. Agnes Demano, ang kontrobersiyal nga doctor sa Minglanilla District Hospital nga…
City Hall official says Cebu City interagency task force to continue drive Unless industry rules are changed, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said there’s no chance of allowing the use or sale of butane canisters…
Is Mayor Michael Rama endorsing LPG–refilled butane canisters and butane stoves? He scoffed at the idea yesterday, saying he would never put the lives of people in danger that way. A photo of a stove and canister…
LPG refillers lobby to have cans tested as ‘safe’ It’s cheap, handy and everywhere. While the refilling of LPG in butane canisters is banned as a fire hazard, the widespread use and sale of these portable cooking…
If even one of her employees died, Amor Pelenia’s butane canister-refilling operations would have been immediately shut down by the Cebu City government. A circular of the Department of Energy bans the refilling of LPG in single-use…
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…
An ordinance to ban the use, sale and refilling of butane canisters with Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) is under review by the Cebu Provincial Board. “There have been recent massive incidents of fire in Cebu province attributed…
LPG BLAST: 14 HURT At least 14 people, including seven students, were injured in a fire that followed an explosion at a canteen of the Cebu Technological University (CTU) yesterday morning in barangay San Roque, Cebu…
THE chief of the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) ruled that the Petronas Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) Terminal in the City of Naga, Cebu has violated fire safety standards. In a ruling dated July 15, 2014, BFP…
The Naga city government assured that it would not close a gas facility whose permits were earlier canceled due to fire safety compliance issues. Naga legal counsel Alfredo Garcia Jr. told the court yesterday that the city…
Authorities yesterday gave this warning after noting the proliferation of shops that illegally refill butane gas canisters with LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) in Metro Cebu and its suburbs. The danger of an accidental explosion at home arises…
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