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SARA BEFORE THE MEDIA. Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio wears a stoic face as she Wednesday. The mayor provided updates on Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte’s resignation, the recent listens to the questions from members of local media during a news conference at City Hall on flooding in some areas of the city and NCCC mall fire. Lean Daval Jr.
FIRE HERO Melvin Ga-a died trying to save more victims By ARMANDO B. FENEQUITO JR.
recovered burnt bodies is indeed that of Ga-a. Ga-a was among the 36 dead bodies recovered during the retrieval operation by the Bureau of Fire Protection 11 (BFP-11) last Monday. In a press brie�ing yesterday, Mayor Duterte-Carpio said that in addition to the 37 recovered bodies as of Monday, there is still one who is still to be retrieved from burnt mall. Of the 37 bodies recov-
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At the same time, one of the 37 retrieved bodies is considered a hero who had brought to safety scores of call center agents but who perished in his attempt to save additional persons by going back to �ire scene. Davao City Mayor Sara D. Carpio identi�ied as one Melvin Ga-a, a mall employee trained for emergency and disaster response. The management of NCCC Mall con�irmed that one of the
ered, 36 were identi�ied and one is unidenti�ied, Duterte said. The city mayor was referring to Alexandra Moreno, as the unidenti�ied employee of SSI Philippines Davao, who is reported by her family as still missing. Moreno was included of the list of missing SSI employees who were trapped inside the building. “We are continuously looking for the one missing SSI employee named Alexandra Moreno,” she said. She said personnel of the city government and
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ne more victim of the 31-hour NCCC Mall Davao fire cannot be accountable for.
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