A fire broke out at the storage facility of Pasig City General Hospital (PCGH) in Barangay Maybunga on Wednesday, the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) Pasig said.
Superintendent John Pinagod Jr., BFP-Pasig chief, said the blaze started at the hospital’s storage facility located on the fourth floor.
Fire investigators said the blaze reached the first alarm at 10:33 a.m.
At 11:09 a.m., BFP raised the alarm level to third alarm.
Firefighters declared fire out at 3 p.m.
In a Twitter post, Mayor Vico Sotto said the fire got stronger after it consumed the hospital’s stockpile of alcohol.
“Salamat sa Diyos walang nasaktan, pero nilipat muna ang 14 pasyente sa ibang pasilidad sa Pasig (Thanks to God nobody was injured, but 14 patients were transferred to other facilities here in Pasig),” he said.
Meanwhile, Sotto thanked Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso for offering to help in the transfer of affected patients.
Pinagod said that they are still determining what caused the blaze at PCGH.