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Gas stove triggers fire at San Vicente house
A firefighter sprays water into the kitchen area of a semi-concrete house in San Vicente during a fire yesterday morning. Arson investigators determined that the cause of the blaze was a lighted paper used as a “pilot light” for a gas stove. (Derek Gersonde)
Cooking with a gas stove triggered a fire at a one-story, semi-concrete house occupied by a family in San Vicente yesterday morning.
No one was reported injured and no treatment was provided to anyone at the scene for medical complaints, according to Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services spokesman Derek Gersonde.
Gersonde said the fire only damaged the kitchen as firefighters were able to contain the blaze in that area.
Gersonde said DFEMS received a call from the Department of Public Safety’s dispatch about a structure fire at a residence across the baseball field in San Vicente at 8:37am.
Firefighters from Susupe and Kagman fire stations responded and placed the blaze under control at 9am.
“The cause of the fire was found to be accidental,” the DFEMS spokesman said.
Arson Investigation Unit investigators learned that occupants of the house were cooking with a gas stove in the kitchen.
A lighted piece of paper was used as a pilot light.
A member of the family exposed the lighted paper to combustible materials, triggering the fire.
Last April 20, a moped driven by a man caught fire on the hill of Tun Joaquin Doi Road in Finasisu .The driver, a Chinese man, was not injured.
Last March 28, a three-hour fire engulfed the Home & Plus Department Store in San Antonio, which just opened for business last November.
Last March 27, a bush fire burned acres of vegetation at Wireless Ridge on Capital Hill.
Last Feb. 13, fire of unknown cause broke out at one of the rooms of Capital Hotel in Garapan.
Last Feb. 11, a 3-year-old boy was injured when a fire broke out at an apartment in Susupe.
Last Jan. 20, a car caught fire in front of Mount Carmel School in Chalan Kanoa, while another fire broke out at a shipping container at the old dumpsite in Puerto Rico.
