200 families in Cavite lose homes to fire

Some 200 families in Barangay Sta. Cruz, Dasmariñas, Cavite have been herded in an evacuation center after a fire destroyed their houses.

"Unang Balita" reported Friday that the fire, believed to have originated from an unattended kerosene lamp, sent affected barangay residents in a scramble fleeing their houses.

An initial investigation showed that an unattended kerosene lamp in one of the houses sparked the fire that took firefighters nearly two hours to put out.

Homeless families are now being attended to in a nearby evacuation center, the report said. —LBG, GMA News