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(Eagle News) — At least nine people were killed after a fire engulfed a house in Pasay early Thursday, Feb. 7. The fatalities in the fire that broke out in the residence in Maricaban at 2:10 a.m. were Julius Wablas, his wife Rheadela, and daughters Nicole, Juric Andrea and Julia Janet, the Bureau of Protection said. Also killed were Michael Calma and his sons Mark Joseph, John Clark and Andrew James. Only Calma’s wife, Jasmin, survived. The […]
(Eagle News)—-Two people were killed after a fire razed a residential area in Cainta, Rizal on Sunday, Feb. 3. The fatalities in the incident on Ortigas Avenue and Felix Avenue in Barangay Santo Domingo were identified as Maria Refol Cabucas, 81, and John Bell Lorenzo, 26. Authorities said the two may have suffocated because of the blaze that hit at 5:06 p.m. and spread to an adjacent subdivision. The fire reached the Task Force Alpha alarm […]
(Eagle News) — Three children are in critical condition after being trapped inside a house in Caloocan that caught fire on Friday, Feb. 1. Authorities said Cedric James Valero, 8; Chloe Valero, 6; and Alexandra Valero, 4; were rushed to a nearby hospital after they sustained burns from a fire that hit their rented house in Barangay Bagong Barrio past midnight. Apart from the rented house, a clothing store was also affected by the blaze. According to […]
(Eagle News)—Three people were killed after a fire hit a residential area in Manila on Tuesday, Jan. 15. The charred bodies of Lynrose Balot Valentin, 50; her son Jordan Valentin, 26; and a 17-year-old relative were found on the second floor of the house on Doña Maria Street in Sampaloc after the fire, which began past 6 a.m., was put out at 6:47 a.m. The blaze did not reach he first alarm. Authorities are investigating the incident. […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — Nine people were killed and 15 injured in a blaze that broke out early Monday at a hospice for the terminally ill near Taiwan’s capital Taipei, fire officials said. All of the 36 people inside, including three staff, were evacuated after the fire started at the hospice on the seventh floor of a nine-storey hospital in New Taipei city. Sixteen had cardiac arrests and seven were revived. The other nine died […]
(Eagle News)–A residential area caught fire in Manila on Sunday, June 17. The fire hit several houses on Geronimo St. in Sampaloc. So far, the alarm has been raised to third. Authorities are still trying to put out the fire. There are no reported injuries so far.
(Eagle News) — Six people–four children and two mothers–were killed in a fire that hit a residential area in Paranaque on Wednesday, May 9. Authorities identified the fatalities as Marie Joy de Jesus, 27, and her children Jomari Canaria, 6, and Daniel Luis Canaria, 10; and De Jesus’ aunt Ana Donna Agrasada, 26, and her children Jake Angelo Amata, 3, and Jake Amata, 6. According to Senior Insp. Wilson Tana, Paranaque fire marshal, the fire hit the […]
P15 million worth of properties destroyed By Earlo Bringas Eagle News Service At least three people were injured and around P15 million worth of properties were destroyed in a fire that engulfed a toy warehouse in Pasig City on Tuesday night. The blaze struck the warehouse of Prime Rich Global owned by Myrna Tangyao on Jenny’s Avenue in Barangay Rosario at 7:20 p.m. Authorities have yet to determine the cause of the blaze, but residents said […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — The bus fire in Kazakhstan in which 52 people were killed Thursday is among of the deadliest bus accidents in the world over the past five years. Here are some of the others. 2018 Peru: Fifty-two people die in January when a bus plunges 100 meters (330 feet) over a seaside cliff after colliding with a truck on a precarious stretch of road known as the “devil’s curve.” The accident is […]
ASTANA, Kazakhstan (AFP) — Fifty-two people were killed Thursday when the bus they were traveling on caught fire in Kazakhstan, the central Asian nation’s emergency services ministry said in a statement. “On January 18 at 10:30 am (0430 GMT), a bus caught fire … 55 passengers and two drivers were on board. Five people who managed to escape are receiving medical assistance. The rest died on the spot,” the ministry said, without elaborating on the […]
(Eagle News) — The fire that hit a mall in Cebu has been declared under control. Firefighters said that the blaze that hit the Ayala Metro Mall was placed under control past noon on Sunday. It has been almost two days since the fire started at the stockroom of the toy department. The fire started at 9:30 p.m. on Friday. There were no reported injuries so far.
by Ayee Macaraig Agence France Presse Thirty-seven people were believed killed in a fire that engulfed a shopping mall in Davao, local authorities said on Sunday. A Bureau of Fire Protection commander at the scene said the chances of the 37 surviving were “zero,” Paolo Duterte, Davao’s vice mayor, who is also the president’s son, wrote in a Facebook post. The blaze started at the four-storey NCCC Mall on Saturday morning and people were trapped […]
