Three female family members, including a pregnant woman and a nine-year-old child, died in a fire that struck a residential area in Barangay Tangos South, Navotas City on Thursday, May 14. According to the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), the fatalities were a 45-year-old mother, her 20-year-old...
DAVAO CITY – Over 1,000 individuals displaced by a fire in Barangay 23-C have received assistance from Davao City Rep. Paolo Duterte and Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte II. Personnel have been distributing packed meals to affected families staying in temporary evacuation sites. Authorities have...
BACOLOD CITY – This city has extended assistance to 71 families or 179 residents displaced by a fire in Purok Magnolia, Barangay 7 here on Tuesday, May 12. The Department of Social Services and Development (DSSD) and the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (CDRRMO) provided water...
The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) warned the public, specifically business establishment owners, to be on the lookout for lurking unscrupulous groups claiming to be legitimate fire safety inspectors. In order not to be tricked, the BFP sadvised the public to look for the inspection order with...
A 52-year-old man died from smoke inhalation while helping extinguish a fire that gutted his brother’s house in Barangay Pasong Putik, Quezon City, early Wednesday, May 13. He was rushed to a hospital by the Barangay Health Emergency Response Team (BHERT) but was declared dead on arrival due to...
BACOLOD CITY – Twenty-six houses were destroyed in a fire in Purok Magnolia, Barangay 7, this city, on Tuesday, May 12. City Fire Marshal Fire Supt. Jenny Mae Masip said the fire started at around 11:20 a.m. in the bedroom of a two-story house intended as a boarding house. She said the house was...
Eight workers were safely evacuated after a fire, reportedly caused by an overheated electric fan, broke out past midnight on Monday, May 11, inside a junk shop barracks in Barangay Gulod, Novaliches, Quezon City. Initial investigation by the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) showed that a...
A month after the fire at the Navotas Sanitary Landfill reportedly broke out, all monitored areas in Metro Manila recorded “good” air quality levels for fine particulate matter (PM2.5), the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said on Sunday, May 10. Citing PM2.5 data as of...
A residential fire in Taguig City destroyed five houses and caused an estimated P600,000 in damage on Saturday, May 9. The Taguig City Fire Station reported that the blaze started at about 2:39 p.m. in a two-storey house on Centaur Street in Barangay Ususan. The first alarm was raised at 2:54...
About 60 families, consisting of around 180 individuals, were displaced after a fire broke out in a residential area in Parañaque City on Sunday afternoon, May 10. According to SFO3 Giovanni Corbes, arson investigator of the Parañaque Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), the fire started at around...
The Marikina Filipino-Chinese Fire Brigade Volunteers provided water supply assistance to residents of Barangay Nangka in Marikina following a water interruption due to an ongoing emergency leak repair on Saturday, May 9. The leak repair is ongoing at the corner of Spain Street and Daang Bakal,...
A fire ripped through a residential community in Quezon City early Saturday, May 9, displacing around 100 families after quickly escalating to second alarm in Barangay Bagong Pag-asa. The Bureau of Fire Protection–Quezon City said the fire broke out at 5:50 a.m. near Jetti along Road 3, Mindanao...
