LAOAG CITY — Firefighters across Ilocos Norte joined forces to put out a seven-hour fire that ravaged Thursday, May 27, the upper portion of a shopping center in this city’s commercial area, authorities said.
Fire superintendent Floro Obrero, director of the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) in Ilocos Norte, told the Inquirer in a phone interview Friday that the blaze that reached the fourth alarm broke out on the third floor of the “M.E. Shopping Center” around 7:30 a.m.
He said the first firefighters arrived 10 minutes after the employees of the Laoag City government reported the incident.
BFP’s initial investigation showed that the fire started after an employee of the es…
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