-freeman
Fire investigators said the blaze could have been started by a lighted candle.
Witnesses could hear the children screaming for help from their room
He and his wife, Jocelyn, earn their keep by driving their passenger multicab.
The couple has four children but Mike Justin, 9, was at his grandmother’s house located on the other side of the M.L Quezon circumferential road. Jocelyn fainted four times when she saw the burnt house.
Until Monday afternoon, she refused to talk with people and was repeatedly calling the names of her three children.
“Natumba ang kandila nga ilang gidagkotan diha gyod sa kortina sa pultahan sa kwarto nga ilang gikatulgan (The lighted candle toppled into the curtain at the door),†he said.
At past 8 p.m., thick smoke was seen coming out of their house, after which the neighbors heard the children scream for help.
They tried to open the front and back doors, but these were locked from the inside.
The BFP received the fire alarm at 8:25 p.m. and controlled it in two minutes. Property damage was placed at P60,000.
-sunstar
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