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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