Araneta-owned warehouse in QC catches fire

By: Julliane Love De Jesus - 10 years ago

Photo by Julliane Love de Jesus/黑料社

MANILA, Philippines鈥擠elivery vans, rubber, carton boxes and cable wires burned inside an Araneta Group-owned warehouse in Cubao, Quezon City, as the building caught fire Thursday afternoon.

The main warehouse of Philippine Pizza Inc., located on Edsa in Barangay (village) Kaunlaran, was hit by fire around聽3 p.m.

Philippine Pizza Inc., franchisee of Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and Dairy Queen, is managed by the Araneta Group owned by the family of Interior Secretary Mar Roxas.

Arson investigators have yet to find out the cause of fire.

Kaunlaran village chief Jose Antonio Talamayan told reporters that the fire may have been caused by an unattended acetylene bottle used for welding.

No one was hurt in the incident, Rommel Sucgang, Red Cross Quezon City chapter head, told聽

A neighborhood in nearby village of Bagong Lipunan was disturbed as firefighters and police volunteers had to pass through a row of houses to contain the blaze.

Six fire trucks responded to the area as it reached second alarm聽at聽3:10 p.m.聽It was quickly put out聽at聽3:25 p.m.

Sucgang said the fire did not affect nearby houses as they were protected by a firewall.