BFP: Pagadian City Fire Station marks P29-M property damage in 2013

Pagadian City Fire Marshall Sr. Insp. Reggy Olmedo

(Photo by JONG CADION)

By JONG CADION

PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur - The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) has recorded an increase of more than P20 million worth of properties damaged in fire incidents in 2013 compared to that of the previous year within the area of jurisdiction of the Pagadian City Fire Station.

Aside from this city, the Pagadian City Fire Station covers the seven nearby municipalities of this province that do not have firefighting equipment. This province has a total of 26 municipalities.

The seven municipalities are: Dumalinao, Guipos, Kumalarang, Labangan, Lakewood, San Pablo, and Tigbao.

Pagadian City Bureau of Fire Protection (By JONG CADION)

Pagadian City Fire Marshall Sr. Insp. Reggy Olmedo disclosed Thursday that they have recorded a total of P29 million worth of properties damaged in fire incidents in 2013 as compared to only more than P7 million in 2012.

Olmedo said this came about as a total of 76 structures were affected by fire incidents in 2013.

Thirty-three of the 76 structures were razed by fire. 

In 2012, Olmedo said that only 24 of the total of 70 affected structures were razed by fire.

Olmedo disclosed that biggest destruction caused by a single incident last year was the fire incident in April at Camp Cesar Sang-an, which houses the Army’s 1st Infantry Division headquarters in Barangay Upper Pulacan, Labangan, this province.

Seven structures including the ammunition and explosives storage were affected and the estimate to property damaged was placed at more than P20 million.

However, he noted that only one vehicle was burned last year as compared to three in 2012.

He said that a civilian was also killed in a fire incident and four were injured in 2013 compared to five injured--one fireman and four civilians--in the previous year.