At least 15 people were killed, including a minor, after a fire broke out inside a house that was being
Mayor Joy Belmonte ordered city legal officer Orlando Casimiro to file appropriate charges against the four living incorporators of MJC Warehouse Inc. on Kennedy Lane, Pleasant View Subdivision in Barangay Tandang Sora for violation of the labor law and fire safety code.
He said most of the victims were stay-in workers who could have been sleeping at the time the fire broke out. Chief Supt. Nahum Tarroza, BFP-National Capital Region fire marshal, said the chemicals used for t-shirt printing could have caused the fire to spread rapidly. The city government will be extending burial and financial aid, scholarship, and job or livelihood opportunities to the victims’ immediate relatives, Belmonte said.
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