Thousands of people lose homes in Manila slum fire ( Quezon City )

MANILA, Philippines – A huge fire sweeping through a shantytown outside the Philippine capital has destroyed about 300 houses and left about 7,000 people homeless.

Metropolitan Manila Fire Marshal Pablito Cordeta says about 200 firetrucks are battling the fire that started at midafternoon Sunday and was still burning at nightfall. It spread rapidly in the slum in Quezon city because of strong winds and

Fire hits Edsa Shangrila Mall

A small fire hit the basement of upscale Shangri La Plaza Mall in Mandaluyong City on Friday night around 10pm where employees, tenants and moviegoers were evacuated. Mandaluyong Fire Marshal Nahum Tarroza said the blaze started at about 10:30 p.m. in the storage room of Rustan’s Supermarket at the basement but smoke continued to billow out of the building well until Saturday morning.

Tarroza said the fire struck a 100 square meter storage room of the supermarket, containing stacks of grocery items.


As of 4 a.m., smoke continued to gush out, although

Fire Hits Greenbelt 3 Mall

Greenbelt 3 Mall an Ayala-owned Mall was on fire 6:49pm Thursday night, it has reached 3rd alarm. I guess Makati has a good knack for disaster regarding malls. In 2007 an explosion in Glorietta 2 occured killing 11 persons and leaving many wounded.

My Burnt House

April 1 2006

I woke up at 4am in the morning because of the smell of something buring, then I alarmed my brother and father about it. My father checked the 2nd floor of our house ( we lived at the 3rd floor ) and saw that there is a lot of smoke coming from there. We immediately went out of the house without bringing anything with us because of the panic. Knocked on our neighbors door to tell them that our house is burning, so that they can call the firefighter. A few minutes after the fire got bigger, good thing the building infront of our house has a firehose that my father used to somehow fight the fire. Then the firetrucks came and extinguished the flames, but its already too late. All of our things was burned already.