By Jhunnex Napallacan Inquirer Visayas CEBU CITY—Around 1,500 workers face a bleak Christmas as the downtown shopping mall where they worked was gutted by fire early Friday. It took firefighters over 12 hours to contain the fire that hit Gaisano Capital South located at the corner of Leon Kilat and Colon Streets in Cebu City. The fire broke out at 12:42 a.m. on the second floor of the eight-story building. The fire alarm was raised to Task Force Bravo at 3:55 a.m., said FO2 Ramon Molina of the Cebu City fire department. Eddie Gaisano, owner of the Gaisano Capital Group, was “very devastated,” said Eric Labrada, the firm’s liaison officer. The store in Colon was used as the corporate office of the Gaisano Capital, which has 17 branches nationwide. Labrada said that based on initial report, a spark from the engine room, where the generator was placed, occurred on the second floor before the fire broke out. He said no one was inside the building at that t...