Router causes DWCL fire

By Dominic B. dela Cruz

Staff Reporter

Laoag City acting fire marshal F/Sr. Insp. Bonifacio Sacatrapos confirmed that the fire incident at the Divine Word College (DWCL) of Laoag that transpired on September 4 at around 9:14 in the evening was due to a computer network router.

Sacatrapos reported that according to Jansen House finance officer Father Romeo Fajardo who was invited at the BFP for a testimony on the incident, the fire occurred at the guest room of the second floor of the said building.

The room houses a computer network router that provides Wi-Fi internet signal to the elementary school building. The said gadget is always on and it was believed to either have overheated or malfunctioned.

The said router was already five years old though the school official said it is being inspected once a month.

When Fajardo saw the fire, he said school officials immediately called the fire station and the building occupants attempted to extinguish the fire until fire officers arrived.

The priest placed the damages of the fire at P200,000.

Meanwhile, Sacatrapos also stated that the city’s Bureau of Fire Protection regularly conducts fire and earthquake drills at schools and business establishments here.

He stressed that they have already conducted emergency drills at DWCL, Northwestern University and Northern Christian College as well as elementary and secondary schools so students and pupils would know what to do in cases of emergencies.

The BFP plans to conduct the same drills on other schools in the city.

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