EARLIER: Firefighters try to put out the blaze razing an old house along General Luna St., Vigan https://t.co/sDo55hwVGt
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CNN Philippines (February 26) – A man was killed in a fire that hit an ancestral home in the historic city of Vigan, Ilocos Sur, on Wednesday morning, the city’s fire station confirmed.
The old house was not totally gutted, while two nearby houses made of concrete were slightly damaged, they added.
“Another house got caught up but its not totally burned down,” Benedict Ramirez told CNN Philippines on Wednesday,
Authorities said the victim was a resident of the ancestral home located at the corner of Plaridel and General Luna streets, just a block away from Calle Crisologo, a well-known heritage strip due to rows of restored 16th century houses.
In 1999, Vigan was listed as UNESCO’s World Heritage Site for being the “best preserved example of Spanish colonial towns in Asia.”
Vigan City Fire Station investigators are still identifying the cause of the incident and assessing the damage from the hour-long fire,
