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FIRES FROM they were in happened
JAN-FEB. 2019 to have been fire traps
that rescuers could not
T he number of fires enter, De los Reyes said
in an interview with
might have dropped in
the first two months of Radyo Inquirer AM 990
2019, compared to the same on Sunday.
period last year. But the
number of fire-related
deaths had gone up
significantly, according to
Chief Insp. Jude de los
Reyes, spokesperson of the
Bureau of Fire Protection
(BFP). In January and
February this year, 67
people died in fires — a 113-
percent increase compared
to the more than 20 deaths
recorded in the same period
last year. Most of the fires,
he noted, happened at night
while these people were
asleep and the structures
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