Illegal manufacturers of firecrackers warned
THE New Year’s celebration may still be almost two months away, but the Dagupan City Fire Marshal has began issuing warnings to firecracker manufacturers following a related incident recently.
A fire cracker explosion triggered by still lighted cigarette butts on November 2 caused injury and third degree burns to a firecracker producer.
Senior Inspector Romualdo Mina, City Fire Marshal, told The PUNCH that they will be distributing information materials this week to business establishments and consumers.
The fire marshal added that a door-to-door campaign on the safe handling of firecrackers among the producers and distributors will be conducted.
The city’s One-Stop-Shop Office, where businessmen go for their business permits, will assist in the information campaign.
Ernesto Villanueva, 54, resident of Bacayao Norte, the firecracker-producing barangay in the city, was confined at the Region I Medical Center after the explosion, the first firecracker-related incident so far recorded this year.
The victim was mixing and pounding potassium nitrate when he accidentally dropped a lit cigarette butt to the substance.
The house where Villanueva was working was also partially burned.
There is only one registered firecracker producer in the barangay, but many households are involved in the production of firecrackers, according to Mina.
In December 2006, one was killed while four others were seriously injured in a firecracker factory explosion in the area. #
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