Tondo fire leaves 40 families homeless

BY MINKA TIANGCO

Some 40 families lost homes after a fire struck a residential area in Tondo, Manila early Thursday morning.

The blaze started at the house of a certain Reynaldo Liwanag on Dagupan Extension in Tondo at around 4:23 a.m.

It reached the second alarm a minute later and quickly escalated to third alarm at 4:34 a.m.

Firefighters declared the fire under control at 5:06 a.m. It was extinguished at 5:20 a.m.

No casualties or injuries have been reported in the fire.

With around 20 structures affected, fire investigators pegged the estimated cost of damage at P100,000.

Investigators have yet to determine the cause of the fire. (Minka Tiangco)