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A woman carries a statue of Santo Niño and a dog away from a fire in Tondo, Manila. Jam Sta Rosa/AFP/Getty Images Black smoke rises during a fire in the Isla Puting Bato residential area in Manila.
A fire engulfed a residential area in Tondo, Manila, early morning on Tuesday, the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) reported. In its latest update, the BFP said 13 personnel and one ambulance responded ...
A woman carries a statue of Santo Niño and a dog away from a fire in Tondo, Manila. - Jam Sta Rosa/AFP/Getty Images Black smoke rises during a fire in the Isla Puting Bato residential area in Manila.
Fire Engulfs Dozens of Homes in Manila. A 5-alarm fire tore through multiple homes in Isla Puting Bato, Tondo district, Manila, on Sunday, November 24.
MANILA, Philippines — Fire destroyed 30 houses in Isla Puting Bato, Tondo, early Thursday morning and left around 300 people homeless in Manila, the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) reported.
The fire spread rapidly through makeshift homes in Manila’s Tondo district, an official said, displacing 1,000 families. “It’s like you lit up a box of matches.” ...
MANILA, Philippines — A fire gutted a huge residential community in Tondo, Manila yesterday. Buildings 23 to 27 of the Aroma housing site in the area of Vitas were gutted by the fire that ...
The BFP said the fire was reported to them past 7 p.m. along Malvar St., in Gagalangin Tondo, Manila. Firefighters raised the first alarm at 7:08 p.m. and further escalated this to the second ...
Drone footage from the Manila Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office showed raging orange flames razing densely packed stilt homes in Isla Puting Bato, a squalid area of Tondo, Manila. The ...
The Manila Fire District said around 1,000 houses were destroyed and roughly 8,000 people displaced ... Isla Puting Bato sits in the district of Tondo, which is Manila’s largest slum area home ...