BACOOR CITY, Cavite – Five family members perished when a fire razed the four-door Monasan Apartment early dawn on Tuesday in Fe & E De Castro Subdivision, Aniban 5 in this city.
Senior Fire Officer 4 (SFO4) Pablito De Castro, deputy fire marshall of the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP)-Bacoor City, said the fire broke out around 2:10 a.m. and was declared fire out by 5 a.m.
Fire probers are still determining the cause of fire, but estimated the damage to reach PHP200,000.
Responding fire fighters and police investigators identified the fatalities as the 37 year-old father Christopher M. Moyano; wife Sherlyn Abalos Moyano; eldest daughter Christine,14; son Julian; and two younger siblings Christ Nathan, 3; and four-month old baby Samuel Dane – all residents of a unit in the Monasan Apartment.
Myla Cantosa, the victims’ neighbor and tenant in one of the apartment units, narrated that she was resting around midnight when she heard the Moyano family who just arrived home from a swimming jaunt in a resort.
Suddenly, Cantosa heard the victims screaming for help, prompting her to go out of her rented unit and knocked at the doors of the other renters to come out.
Minutes later, a fire broke out at the Moyano unit, sending all other occupants to vacate their place and called up the BFP which dispatched three fire trucks.
As fire fighters put out the blaze, investigators and emergency responders recovered the charred remains of the Moyano family members inside their unit’s rest room. The family victims’ remains were brought to the Mesina Funeral Homes in Cavite.
The neighbors also said that they did not hear any explosion but was surprised to witness a big blaze that suddenly engulfed the Moyano unit. (Rogelio Limpin/PNA)
