DAVAO CITY – Eighty-one families affected by a recent fire in Barangay 34-D received on Thursday, February 29, relief and cash aid from First Congressional District Representative Paolo Duterte at the Kapitan Tomas Monteverde Elementary School here.

Rep. Duterte’s son, Rodrigo “Rigo” Duterte II, led the distribution of relief packs, water containers, bottled water, and cash assistance through the PPP program to 19 house owners, 31 renters, 30 boarders, and a caretaker in the same barangay.

The lawmaker’s staff also served 200 hot porridges (lugaw) and started to provide packed lunches, which will run for five days for the fire victims, including their children, who are still recuperating from the incident.

Rigo, who thanked everyone for their infinite support to his father and the Duterte family, assured that his family will continue to provide immediate aid to families affected by calamities and other unfortunate incidents.

The Bureau of Fire Protection in Davao region (BFP-Davao) revealed that the two-hour fire gutted down around 20 houses in Barangay 34-D, yielded an estimated P525,000 worth of damage, and left the affected families homeless.

Based on the initial assessment of the BFP-Davao, the blaze started from a house owned by Vivian Mainit on February 26, Monday afternoon, which gutted down neighboring houses and partially damaged a chapel nearby.

The BFP-Davao reported no fatalities and injured individuals in the incident caused by a fallen electrical post. The bureau noted that most houses gutted down and damaged by fire were made of light materials.