Hanoi (VNA) – A big fire ripped through a closely built slum area of the Philippine capital Manila on November 24, AFP reported.
The Manila Fire District Office said around 1,000 houses were burnt in the blaze, thought to have started on the second floor of one of the houses. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
Drone footage shared online by the city’s disaster agency shows houses at the Isla Puting Bato district of Manila razed to the ground. The structures housed around 2,000 families, according to the fire department.
That area is fire-prone since most of the houses are made of light materials.
Fire and disaster services deployed 36 trucks and four fire boats while the country’s air force sent in two helicopters to help extinguish the fire./.
