Four individuals sustained minor injuries while around 300 families were displaced after a fire hit a residential area in Barangay 121, Tondo, Manila, on Wednesday evening, April 15. Four individuals were reported injured, including a 67-year-old woman who sustained a first-degree burn on her left...
Prime Infrastructure has deployed two firefighting tugboats to help contain the blaze at the Navotas sanitary landfill, as local authorities continue efforts to extinguish a deep-seated fire that broke out on April 10. In a press briefing on Wednesday, April 15, Navotas City Mayor John Rey Tiangco...
TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan — A large auto supply store on Balzain Highway in Barangay Balzain West here was gutted by fire Tuesday night. Fire Chief Insp. Francis Barcellano of the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP)-Tuguegarao said the blaze started at around 7:30 p.m. The affected structure,...
Metro Manila residents must wear face masks outdoors as air quality across the capital deteriorated to hazardous levels, the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) said Tuesday, April 14. In an advisory, the OCD–National Capital Region said monitoring stations recorded pollutants reaching “unhealthy”...
Lapses in the closure and rehabilitation of the Navotas Sanitary Landfill have been blamed for the underground fire that continues to smolder at the site, where authorities on Tuesday, April 14, intensified sand burial operations to contain the incident. Navotas City Mayor John Rey Tiangco said...
A fire broke out along C.P. Garcia Avenue in Barangay U.P. Campus in Quezon City on Monday night, April 13, prompting a response from firefighters shortly before midnight. According to the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), the blaze reached second alarm before it was brought under control. It was...
Navotas City recorded a “good” air quality level on Monday, April 13, even as white smoke continued to rise from the closed Navotas Sanitary Landfill Facility due to persistent underground smoldering despite the absence of visible flames. The Navotas City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management...
Air quality levels turned “very unhealthy” in Quezon City (Manila Observatory) and “unhealthy” in Quezon City (Commonwealth Avenue), Navotas City, and Malabon City following a recent fire at a landfill in Navotas, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said. This was...
The Navotas City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (DRRMO) will begin soil-cover operations on Monday, April 13, to block oxygen and suppress the underground fire at the closed Navotas Sanitary Landfill Facility. The blaze remains contained but continues to smolder beneath the surface....
DIADI, Nueva Vizcaya – Five people were injured in a collision between a trailer truck and a wing van in Purok 1, Barangay San Luis here on Saturday, April 11. SFO1 Ernesto Pinonwangan Jr., officer-in-charge of the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) here, said the van burst into flames after...
The Navotas City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (Navotas City DRRMO) clarified on Saturday, April 11, that the old Navotas Sanitary Landfill (NSLF), which caught fire on Friday night, April 10, and is now under control , is not owned by the local government. It said that the NSLF...
Thick smoke from the ongoing fire at the Navotas Sanitary Landfill spread across parts of Metro Manila on Saturday, April 11, as the blaze continued to emit smoke and affected air quality in several areas. The fire, which broke out around 8 p.m. on April 10, continued to send smoke across multiple...
