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BY MERIANNE GRACE EREÑETA
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ILOILO City – Fire hit a cargo ship docked at the Iloilo River yesterday morning.
The engine compartment of Starlite Tamaraw’s boom crane was totally gutted.
The cargo vessel was loaded with assorted feeds. The boom crane was used to transfer sacks of feeds from the ship to a waiting truck.
Fire erupted from the engine compartment around 10:54 a.m. The Bureau of Fire Protection declared a fire out at 11:18 a.m.
No one got hurt.
The fire was a result of negligence, according to Superintendent Jerry Candido, city fire marshal.
From what a fire investigator gathered, there was a leak at the boom crane’s diesel engine fuel filter.
“According to the ship’s second engineer, he ordered one of his men to plug the leak with sawdust,” said Senior Fire Officer 2 Rollen Jormina.
Sawdust was combustible, according to Candido.
“This is an example of negligence. We must not put combustible materials sa engine compartment simply because the engine produces heat. Combustible materials will naturally catch fire,” he explained.
Candido pegged the damage left by the fire at P500 thousand.
The cargo vessel was from Iligan City. It docked at the Iloilo River on Oct. 3.
The driver of the truck receiving the sacks of feeds from the cargo vessel described the fire to Panay News.
“Nakita ko nagkalayo ang buli sang crane. Nag singggit kmi,” said the 32-year-old driver who asked not to be identified. He did not say why.
He said he was supposed to transport the feeds to Roxas City.
“Nagahalo ang aso kag kalayo. Dako katama,” said the driver./PN
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