At least 4,000 people lost their homes after a fire razed some 100 houses in a residential area in Bacolod City Wednesday noon.
The fire hit six sub-villages in Barangay Banago in Bacolod even as arson investigators verify information that a mentally challenged person started the fire.
The displaced residents were relocated to the Domingo Lacson National High School, according to a report on Visayas-based news site The Daily Guardian.
It took firefighters some two hours to place the fire under control.
The fire spread quickly since many of the houses were made of light materials
Fire Officer 3 Cornelio Silva said many residents claimed a mentally challenged resident of Purok Katilingban Zone 1 may have started the fire.
He said the residents saw the resident setting fire to a curtain in her house, after dancing and shouting that she would burn her house. —KG, GMA News
By: www.gmanetwork.com
