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Six chil­dren were safe­ly evac­u­at­ed from a Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty Re­cep­tion Cen­tre in San Fer­nan­do on Sun­day af­ter a fire broke out in a bed­room on the build­ing’s sec­ond floor.

Ac­cord­ing to ini­tial re­ports, around 3.37 pm, smoke was ob­served com­ing from the west­ern side of the sec­ond floor.

An em­ploy­ee raised an alarm and, along with four col­leagues, swift­ly evac­u­at­ed the chil­dren while at­tempt­ing to con­tain the blaze. De­spite their ef­forts, the fire spread rapid­ly.