VOL. 7 ISSUE 17 • TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2014
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HOPE. A father kisses his infant child yesterday morning at Magsaysay Park in Davao City where hundreds of families, mostly sea gypsies locally known as badjaos, from Isla Verde who were victims of Friday night’s fire take refuge. Lean Daval Jr.
CREATE FIRE TASK FORCE Quitain wants proposed TF to secure fire-razed areas
By ARMANDO B. FENEQUITO JR.
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HE Davao City government is set to issue a memorandum creating a task force that will secure the ground zero areas affected by the huge fire in Quezon Boulevard last Friday night.
In yesterday’s regular Department Heads meeting, city administrator Jesus Melchor V. Quitain said that he will issue a memorandum pending the issuance of an Executive Order directing city offices concerned to perform their duties on the proposed task force. “So that we can move immediately,” said Quitain. Public Safety and Security and Command Center (PSSCC) chief Francisco Villaroman suggested creating a task force to avoid any encroachment in the three
barangays affected by fire. Villaroman said that if the area will not be secured by the government there is a possibility of commotion since the area is a government property. He said that with the presence of the task force it would avoid intrusion of professional squatters in the area. He said that if the task force will be formed, it would deploy security forces such as Police, Task Force Davao and Civil Security Unit to secure the area and prohibit any person to con-
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UPDATES. Fire Inspector Nestor Jimenez of the Bureau of Fire Services gives updates of Friday night’s fire which affected three barangays in Davao City during Kapehan sa Dabaw at the Annex of SM City Davao yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.