SENATE COMMENDS FIREMEN FOR PUTTING OUT PARAÑAQUE BLAZE
The Senate has complimented firemen for their “efficient and professional
response” in quickly putting out a fire that broke out at a handicraft shop,
which prevented it from spreading out to nearby buildings and saved
properties and lives.
Through a resolution it approved unanimously, the Senate commended the
officers and personnel of the Bureau of Fire, District No. 3, the San
Dionisio Fire and Rescue Group and civilian volunteer firefighters for
successfully extinguishing the fire that gutted parts of the Bayan
Handicrafts located on Roxas Boulevard and Tambo, Parañaque City at about
midnight of April 30.
The blaze gutted portions of the establishment where its handicrafts and
other products were housed and started to spread uncontrollably and
threatened to eat up the adjoining houses and buildings.
In roughly 10 minutes after the fire broke out, volunteer civilian and
government firetrucks, with their personnel arrived and they immediately
began to professionally combat the fire.
“Their timely arrival and their professionalism and dedication to duty eased
the tensions of the owners of the establishment and the occupants of the
nearby houses and buildings,” according to Senate Resolution 1046 introduced
by Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel, Jr. (PDP-Laban).
In a little over an hour after they went to work, the firefighters were able
to extinguish the last burning cinder of the fire at the Bayan Handicraft
Corporation.
Pimentel noted that the firemen could have done their job earlier but for
the fact that an iron-and-wire fence put up by the Metro Manila Development
Authority to control the flow of buses and jeepneys in front of the premises
of the handicraft shop hindered the entry of their firetrucks into the
premises of the burning structure. He said there was no reported loss of
goods to thieves in the process.
“The good work that the firemen, especially the volunteer ones, do are often
simply taken for granted, ignored and forgotten. But when things go wrong in
the performance of their duty, firemen invariably get the opprobrium of the
public in general,” Pimentel said.
He said it is time that the representatives of the people in the Senate give
honor where honor is due to the deserving firefighters.
Commended by the Senate in its resolution are eight officers and men of the
Old Parañaque Fire Fighter Volunteers led by Fire Chief Richmond Fabela; 11
officers and men of the LPGMA Parañaque Fire Fighter Volunteers led by Fire
Chief Josel de la Rosa; members of the Filipino Chinese Fire Volunteers
Association; six members of the San Dionisio Fire and Rescue Group; and 28
officers and men of the Bureau of Fire District 3 composed of Makati, Pasay,
Parañaque, Las Pinas and Muntinlupa cities.
Date: May 7, 2009
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