Firecracker starts blaze in Vigan City; trader killed
abs-cbnNEWS.com | 01/01/2009 4:55 PM
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A businessman died after the firecrackers he was selling were ignited and started a blaze that consumed his three-story commercial center in Vigan City on New Year's Eve.
Vigan City firemen said Frudencio Que was already out of his residential/commercial building along Quezon Avenue, when he decided to ran back inside at the height of the blaze.
Que failed to return. His charred body was recovered by firemen after the blaze.
Arson investigators said the fire broke out midnight, while residents were out lighting firecrackers to welcome the New Year.
Witnesses told investigators that a drunken man lighted a firecracker near Que's store. The firecracker reportedly jumped to the firecrackers being sold in Que's store and started the blaze.
The fire spread to three more stores near Que's establishment before being put out by firefighters. With a report from Bryan Realgo, ABS-CBN Laoag
