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(Eagle News)–A fire broke out in a residential area in Makati on Friday, March 29. The blaze started in Barangay Bangkal at 6:33 a.m. It reached the fourth alarm, and was declared under control at 7:56 a.m. Authorities are still investigating the incident.
(Eagle News) — A passenger bus burst into flames early evening of Friday, March 22, 2019, along the northbound side of EDSA, particularly near the EDSA Shaw tunnel, allegedly after it overheated. No one was reported hurt after the VTSC bus with plate number TXX 274 caught flame, according to authorities. Firemen immediately arrived at the scene and put out the fire. The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) also posted a tweet about the vehicular […]
(Eagle News)–Six people were hurt after a fire hit a residential area in Quezon City on Wednesday, March 20. Around 70 families were also affected by the fire which broke out in Block 5 of Barangay Damayang Lagi at 1:27 p.m. P2 million worth of property was damaged. The blaze reached the general alarm before it was put out past 5 p.m.
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday, March 13, said he would fire another set of officials anew. “I’m sorry,” Duterte said in a speech in Cauayan, Isabela. The President did not elaborate. In his speech, he, however, railed at corruption in the Bureau of Customs, saying this was precisely the reason why he appointed a military man, Rey Leonardo Guerrero, as its head. “Parang aswang ang mga y**a na ito ayaw… Sinabi nang huminto kayo,” he said. […]
MELBOURNE, Australia (AFP) — Homes have gone up in flames and skies turned blood red as nearly 1,000 firefighters battle dozens of out-of-control blazes in southern Australia in the wake of the nation’s warmest summer on record. A days-long heatwave sent temperatures soaring towards 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) over the weekend, with bushfires raging across Victoria state forcing thousands of people to flee their homes. A lightning strike late last week sparked southeast […]
(Eagle News)—The Bureau of Customs will conduct its own probe of the blaze that hit its Port of Manila building in Manila on Friday, Feb. 22. “We have our Enforcement and Security Service securing the affected offices, and our Intelligence Group and the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service have been tasked to identify the cause of the flame,” Customs Commissioner Rey Guerrero said in a statement on Saturday, Feb. 24. According to Guerrero, the situation […]
(Eagle News)—Over P50 million worth of property was lost in two fires in Manila on Friday night. The first fire took place in the Bureau of Customs in Manila around 9 p.m. The blaze started on the third floor of the P-O-M building which housed records, and quickly spread to other structures including the Port of Manila. “Yung building po na yun, isang isolated na building.. Pag stockpile yan, yan po ay madaling masunog at […]
by Shafiqul ALAM Agence France-Presse DHAKA, Bangladesh (AFP) — At least 70 people were killed when fire tore through crumbling apartment blocks in a historic part of Dhaka, setting off a chain of explosions and a wall of flames down nearby streets, officials said Thursday. It started in one building where chemicals for deodorants and other household uses were illegally stored and spread at lightning speed to four nearby buildings, the fire service said. People […]
by Shafiqul Alam DHAKA, Bangladesh (AFP) — At least 69 people have died in a huge blaze that tore through apartment buildings also used as chemical warehouses in an old part of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, fire officials said Thursday. Dozens of people were trapped in the buildings, unable to escape onto narrow streets clogged with traffic, as the highly combustible stores of chemicals, body sprays and plastic granules erupted in flames. Fire control room […]
by Shafiqul ALAM Agence France Presse DHAKA, Bangladesh (AFP) — At least 56 people have died in a huge fire that tore through apartment buildings also used as chemical warehouses in an old part of the Bangladeshi capital, a fire official said Thursday. Dozens of people were trapped in the buildings, unable to escape onto narrow streets clogged with traffic, as the highly-combustible stores of chemicals, body sprays and plastic granules erupted in flames. Bangladesh’s […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — Six people, including three foreigners, were killed when a fire broke out Wednesday in a Malaysian karaoke centre, with rescuers describing scenes of chaos as the blaze engulfed the building. The fire erupted before dawn on the fourth floor of an eight-storey building in the city of Ipoh, northern Perak state. Firefighters rushed to the scene and found the bodies of six people who had died of smoke inhalation, Perak […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Regional authorities in northern Spain said Sunday they were battling around 50 fires, some of which were deliberately set. By end of Sunday, 48 fires were still active, a statement from the government of the Cantabria region said. “During the day we counted 50 fires, and 760 people from different administrations working to put them out,” the statement added. Since the first fires broke out on Thursday in the mountainous region, […]
