Conflagration incident transpired at Cabato Road, Brgy. Tetuan, Zamboanga City at 11:20 AM of January 6, 2021. Zamboanga City Police Station 6 and Bureau of Fire Protection 9 responded at the area.
Investigation disclosed that the fire started at the resident of certain Adela Pitua wherein according to her neighbors they heard a blast of explosion allegedly of LPG that caused the incident and spread to the next houses which were made of light materials. No injured was reported during the incident.
More or less Thirty (30) houses were razed to the ground. At about 1:30 PM of same date, BFP9 declared fire out. Further, estimated cost of damage is more or less Three Hundred Sixty Thousand Pesos (₱ 360,000.00).
Meanwhile, at about 3:00 PM of same date, the personnel of the Bureau of Fire and Protection (BFP) called the presence of the Zamboanga City Police Station 6 personnel and informed that one fatality/cadaver identified by his family as Derick Kim Chia y Villareal, 20 years old, male, single, borders of the place of incident was discovered in the scene. The owner of the resident is Melanie Biñas y Francisco, 36 years old, female of said place.
The personnel of Crime Lab. Office 9 (SOCO team) process the scene and requested City Health Office (CHO) to conduct post mortem examination to the cadaver who was now at Villa Funeral Homes.
The Bureau of Fire and Protection personnel still conducting investigation regarding the incident.
The designated place of evacuees of fire victims were at Tetuan Central School for more or less 50 families and still counting. (PCpt. Edwin A. Duco, Chief Public Information Officer)
(Source: Public Information Office – Police Regional Office IX)