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Fire in southern Philippines destroys 30 homes including part of Don Bosco Training Centre
PASIL: 10th July 2006 -- A fire early this morning around 5.30 has left some 30 families homeless and destroyed part of the Don Bosco Training Centre at Pasil, which is part of Cebu City. The fire appears to have begun outside the compound but quickly spread and was not brought under control until 7.00 am, though firemen responded immediately to calls for help.
A portion of the audiovisual room at the Training Centre was destroyed. Fr Julius Sanchez, the Provincial, went straight to the scene to make an assessment of the damage and to ensure that all due help was being offered to the victims of the blaze, some of whom are now taking shelter in the basketball gym while they wait for Government assistance.
In the meantime classes have been suspended and trainees have been told to report tomorrow. Some trainees turned up to help when news of the fire reached them, and were able to help save parts of the second floor of the Training Centre. Classes had only just resumed after the holiday period. There are currently over two hundred trainees taking courses in welding, carpentry, automotive mechanics, machine operations and dressmaking.
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Fire in southern Philippines destroys 30 homes including part of Don Bosco Training Centre
PASIL: 10th July 2006 -- A fire early this morning around 5.30 has left some 30 families homeless and destroyed part of the Don Bosco Training Centre at Pasil, which is part of Cebu City. The fire appears to have begun outside the compound but quickly spread and was not brought under control until 7.00 am, though firemen responded immediately to calls for help.
A portion of the audiovisual room at the Training Centre was destroyed. Fr Julius Sanchez, the Provincial, went straight to the scene to make an assessment of the damage and to ensure that all due help was being offered to the victims of the blaze, some of whom are now taking shelter in the basketball gym while they wait for Government assistance.
In the meantime classes have been suspended and trainees have been told to report tomorrow. Some trainees turned up to help when news of the fire reached them, and were able to help save parts of the second floor of the Training Centre. Classes had only just resumed after the holiday period. There are currently over two hundred trainees taking courses in welding, carpentry, automotive mechanics, machine operations and dressmaking.
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AustraLasia is an email service for the Salesian Family of Asia Pacific. It also functions as an agency for ANS based in Rome. For queries please contact admin@bosconet.aust.com Try out BoscoWiki to be interactive. For RSS feeds, subscribe to www.bosconet.aust.com/RSS/rssala.xm A separate service entirely is called F/OSSERVATORE to help us keep abreast of trends in the digital world.
