TACLOBAN CITY – A driver and his assistant cheated death after their wing van loaded with 700 Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) tanks crashed and caught fire in Barangay San Vicente, Bontoc, Southern Leyte, last Saturday, June 11. Reports reaching the Police Regional Office (PRO)-8 headquarters...
ECHAGUE, Isabela -- One person died while another was injured when the vehicle they were riding in slammed into a concrete parapet and caught fire on Maharlika Highway in the vicinity of Barangay Castillo here Saturday. A fireman puts out a fire after a car crashed and flipped into a ricefield in...
A fire broke out in a residential area at Laurel st. Brgy. Commonwealth, Quezon City on Friday, June 10. According to Bureau of Fire Protection Public Information Office (BFP NCR-PIO) the fire reached first alarm at around 2:54 p.m. As of this writing, no casualties or injuries were reported....
RESIDENTS stay on their toes as a fire hits a residential area in Poblacion 9, Catbalogan City last Tuesday. (Contributed photo by Rommel Rutor) TACLOBAN CITY – Twenty houses were lost in a fire that hit a residential area in Poblacion 9, Catbalogan City last Tuesday, June 7. The fire that...
CEBU CITY – At least 14 houses were destroyed in a fire that hit Barangay Tisa here Monday, June 6. The fire started at 6:34 a.m. and was contained about an hour later. According to the Cebu City Fire Department, the fire started at the house owned by one Jasmine Lodonia before it spread to...
SITAKUNDA, Bangladesh -- At least 49 people died and hundreds were injured after a fire sparked a huge chemical explosion at a shipping container depot in Bangladesh, officials said on Sunday. Firefighters carry the dead body of a victim from the site after a fire broke out at a container storage...
CEBU CITY – A three-year-old boy died in a fire that hit their house in Barangay Upper Poblacion, Aloguinsan, Cebu Thursday. The fire broke out past 8 p.m. while the victim and his brothers were sleeping. Police said the children were the only ones left at home after their mother was brought to a...
CEBU CITY – About 100 stalls were razed in a fire that hit the Danao City public market in northern Cebu Thursday, June 2. The Danao Fire Station reported that P52-million worth of property was damaged as the damaged structures comprised 80 percent of the market’s total stalls. The fire started...
A fire broke out in a residential area in Brgy. Sta. Teresita, Quezon City on Thursday evening, May 26. According to the Bureau of Fire Protection Public Information Office (BFP-NCR PIO)the fire was raised to first alarm at around 8:20 p.m. and reached second alarm at around 8:35 p.m. The fire was...
TIVAOUANE, Senegal -- Eleven newborn babies perished in a hospital blaze in the western Senegalese city of Tivaouane late on Wednesday, president Macky Sall said. "I have just learned with pain and dismay about the deaths of 11 newborn babies in the fire at the neonatal department of the public...
REAL, Quezon – Authorities reported that seven died and 23 were injured as a roll-on-roll-off (RORO) passenger vessel Mercraft 2 carrying 135 people caught fire some 1000 yards away from its port of destinations -- Real Port, on Monday morning (May 23) in this town. Philippine Coast Guard...
The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) Operations Center (OpCen) immediately sent two firetrucks and two ambulance units to Block 17, Old Baseco Compound, Port Area, Tondo, Manila on May 19, after receiving a call that it was under massive fire. (Photo from PH Red Cross) The fire reached the first alarm at...
