ANCESTRAL HOUSE BURNT DOWN BY "TAONG GRASA"
The fire suspectedly started from an unattended cooking around 2:00 o'clock in afternoon on February 13, 2013, Ash Wednesday and a day before Valentines day celebration, in the Amores residence along the highway at Real Street in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, Philippines.
But the ancestral house where the fire came from was already abandoned. Folks hearsays told that a certain "taong grasa" (stray person) went to the house and steal electrical wires and burned it to get the bronze or copper wire to sell it.
The neighbouring houses such as the Tinagan residence and five more were burnt down as well, which said houses are many years old already and made out of light materials like wood. Fortunately, there were no human casualties reported yet.
The gloomy weather did not help but the wind just maked it a little worse though it rained for a short while. The fire was controlled around 4:00 o'clock in the afternoon and fire fighters continuously cast water to get rid of the remaining fire particles until around 6:00 o'clock in the evening.
In a recent development, one suspect was picked by the police and told there are four others who planned to steal woods inside the abandoned ancestral house to make money out of it to buy hard liquor.
Video taken by: Jeremiah It-it (aka Super Kaloy) and Jenny It-it
UPDATE: BFP to file arson raps vs. 4 -Visayan Daily Star....
DUMAGUETE CITY The Bureau of Fire Protection in Dumaguete City will file arson charges against four persons believed responsible for the fire that turned to ashes five houses in Santa Rosa and Real streets, Dumaguete, Wednesday.
City fire marshal, Senior Insp. Arnulfo Sayson identified the arrested lone suspect as Rene Grapa, a scavenger with no permanent address in Dumaguete City. Grapa’s three other cohorts are being hunted down by the police, he added.
A witness said he saw Grapa lighting a piece of cloth while inside the house that was recently sold by the Amores family to a lending company, while his three companions were gathering pieces of iron bars and scrap.
The fire quickly spread from the abandoned house to the four other neighboring ancestral homes of the Tinagan, Gonzalez, Kaliwanagan and Cabanyog families, Sayson said.
Sayson said the abandoned house had been used as haven by scavengers, beggars and drug addicts.
Grapa who was nabbed Wednesday night, is now detained at the Dumaguete police lockup cell.
The BFP estimated the total damage at P1.8 million as the houses were all made of light materials.*MA
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The fire suspectedly started from an unattended cooking around 2:00 o'clock in afternoon on February 13, 2013, Ash Wednesday and a day before Valentines day celebration, in the Amores residence along the highway at Real Street in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, Philippines.
But the ancestral house where the fire came from was already abandoned. Folks hearsays told that a certain "taong grasa" (stray person) went to the house and steal electrical wires and burned it to get the bronze or copper wire to sell it.
The neighbouring houses such as the Tinagan residence and five more were burnt down as well, which said houses are many years old already and made out of light materials like wood. Fortunately, there were no human casualties reported yet.
The gloomy weather did not help but the wind just maked it a little worse though it rained for a short while. The fire was controlled around 4:00 o'clock in the afternoon and fire fighters continuously cast water to get rid of the remaining fire particles until around 6:00 o'clock in the evening.
In a recent development, one suspect was picked by the police and told there are four others who planned to steal woods inside the abandoned ancestral house to make money out of it to buy hard liquor.
Video taken by: Jeremiah It-it (aka Super Kaloy) and Jenny It-it
UPDATE: BFP to file arson raps vs. 4 -Visayan Daily Star....
DUMAGUETE CITY The Bureau of Fire Protection in Dumaguete City will file arson charges against four persons believed responsible for the fire that turned to ashes five houses in Santa Rosa and Real streets, Dumaguete, Wednesday.
City fire marshal, Senior Insp. Arnulfo Sayson identified the arrested lone suspect as Rene Grapa, a scavenger with no permanent address in Dumaguete City. Grapa’s three other cohorts are being hunted down by the police, he added.
A witness said he saw Grapa lighting a piece of cloth while inside the house that was recently sold by the Amores family to a lending company, while his three companions were gathering pieces of iron bars and scrap.
The fire quickly spread from the abandoned house to the four other neighboring ancestral homes of the Tinagan, Gonzalez, Kaliwanagan and Cabanyog families, Sayson said.
Sayson said the abandoned house had been used as haven by scavengers, beggars and drug addicts.
Grapa who was nabbed Wednesday night, is now detained at the Dumaguete police lockup cell.
The BFP estimated the total damage at P1.8 million as the houses were all made of light materials.*MA
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