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Classes resume in school hit by fire in Lanao del Norte

Published Sep 1, 2022 02:39 pm

ILIGAN CITY – Classes resumed Thursday, Sept. 1, one day after a fire destroyed the 101-year-old Gabaldon building of the Lala Proper Integrated School in Barangay Lala Proper, Lala, Lanao del Norte before dawn Wednesday, Aug. 31.

CLASSES resume outside the burned Gabaldon building of the Lala Proper Integrated School in Lala, Lanao del Norte. Students are holding their classes in tents, the gym, and basketball court. (Photo contributed by Michael Navarro)

Hundreds of students are studying in makeshift classrooms, in tents given by the local government of Lala and at the gym and basketball court.

Secondary Principal II Marilou Apat said the school planned to erect a tent as temporary classroom so that classes continue and students will not be hampered in their studies.

“Ang plano namin ay iyong open gym. Ang gagawin muna namin na mga classroom, then tent will be placed at the basketball court, and to the barangay hall if needed (Our plan is to use the open gym. We will rebuild the classroom and the tents will be placed at the basketball court and to the barangay hall if needed),” Apat said.

Students have expressed dismay over the fire that destroyed their school.

“We’re weakened and deeply hurt to see our school burned, newly renovated, and as this is the only school that is near to where we reside,” said Grade 12 student Julie Ann Yongco, a resident of Barangay Matampay Bucana in Lala.

Mafe Confesor Laroco Mesias, in a Facebook post, said the school is 100-years-old, newly repaired, and filled with memories.

"100-year-old existing cultural building, that were many professionals come from Lala. Saan man sa mundo nakarating (Wherever in the world we are), can't never forget the old Gabaldon building...memories of childhood," Mesias, head of the Matampay Elementary School in Lala and a graduate of the LPIS, said.

Lala Vice Mayor Cesar Yap said that LPIS was the first integrated school built in Lala due to the overwhelming number of students at the Lala National High School. LPIS has 3,000 students.

The Department of Education and the local government of Lala plan to build a new school building with other government agencies.

The fire started at 12:30 a.m. and firefighters promptly responded at 12:38 a.m., said Lala-Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) chief SFO4 Ronel O. Paño.

Ten classrooms were razed, including school materials, TV, modules for students, computers, chairs and tables, sound system, and seven new printers, among others, said Apat.

Damage to property was estimated at P19,764,000, the BFP declared, and 450 students were affected.

BFP is conducting thorough investigation and invited some personalities to shed light on the fire, said Paño.

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