LOS BAÑOS, Laguna – A male employee of the House Technologies Inc (HTI) died in the hospital, making him the first fatality in the big fire that razed the Japanese factory in Cavite’s Export Processing Zone in General Trias town.
The victim Jerome Sismaet, 34, a resident of Maragondon town, also in Cavite, died of severe burns around 12:30 a.m. Sunday while being treated at the Divine Grace Medical Center in General Trias, Cavite Governor Jesus Crispin Remulla said in a phone interview. Sismaet also sustained fractures in his pelvic.
“He was a line leader, who stayed behind to let his people go out (of the burning building) first,” Remulla said.
