{"id":21373,"date":"2026-09-17T01:21:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T17:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=21373"},"modified":"2026-09-17T01:21:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T17:21:48","slug":"family-of-4-die-in-quezon-city-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2026\/09\/17\/family-of-4-die-in-quezon-city-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"FAMILY OF 4 DIE IN QUEZON CITY FIRE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FOUR members of a family on Tuesday died in a fire that hit a townhouse in Quezon City,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Police identified the victims as Roberto Aquino, 64; his wife Alona, 61, their daughter Mercedes, and a 17-year-old girl.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Authorities said the victims died of suffocation and severe burns. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The four were found in the comfort room of the two-storey townhouse located in Bgy. Bahay Touro.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>One of the victims\u2019 relatives managed to escape the raging blaze and was brought to the hospital for treatment of burnt wounds.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>An investigation showed prior to the fire, a neighbor heard an explosion from the house of the victims.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The blaze immediately spread and engulfed the entire house.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The fire reached first alarm at 4:45:33 p.m., was placed under control at 5:05:08 p.m., and was completely extinguished at 5:11:04 p.m., according to the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Initial investigation points to an e-bike charger as the possible source of the fire.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOUR members of a family on Tuesday died in a fire that hit a townhouse in Quezon City, Police identified the victims as Roberto Aquino,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,17],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/FIRE.jpg",685,1271,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/FIRE-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/FIRE-162x300.jpg",162,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/FIRE.jpg",640,1188,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/FIRE-552x1024.jpg",552,1024,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/FIRE.jpg",685,1271,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/FIRE.jpg",685,1271,false],"kreeti-slider-full":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/FIRE-685x720.jpg",685,720,true],"kreeti-featured":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/FIRE.jpg",685,1271,false],"kreeti-medium":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/FIRE-685x530.jpg",685,530,true],"kreeti-medium-square":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/FIRE-350x350.jpg",350,350,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/category\/metro\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Metro<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/category\/top-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Top News<\/a>","tag_info":"Top News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21375,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21373\/revisions\/21375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}