DAGUPAN CITY – A mother’s love knows no bounds. This fact was shown once again when a Shih Tzu dog courageously dashed into her house to rescue her seven puppies trapped inside during a fire in Bagabag, Nueva Vizcaya. However, her valiant effort proved futile when she, along with her seven...
Just days after a massive fire displaced hundreds of residents in Tondo, Manila, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has extended over P13.5 million in emergency cash assistance to help affected families recover and rebuild. A total of 900 families received P15,109 each through...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A fire hit the Hall of Justice in Barangay Zone IV here before dawn on Saturday, Aug. 9. The Bureau of Fire Protection and the City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office put out the fire that started at 3:31 a.m. and declared under control at 3:58 a.m. Nobody was killed or...
TACLOBAN CITY – A fire gutted the house of Llorente, Eastern Samar Mayor Christine Cardona in Llorente on Thursday morning, Aug. 7. Initial investigation disclosed that Cardona was traveling when the fire broke out. The caretaker said the fire originated at around 11 a.m. from one of the...
DAVAO CITY – Acting Davao City Vice Mayor Rodrigo "Rigo" Duterte II visited on Tuesday afternoon, Aug. 5, fire victims in Purok 7, Barangay 8-A, a day after the blaze gutted down 18 houses and displaced 25 families. Duterte distributed financial and relief aid, including food packs, to affected...
Three Philippine Air Force (PAF) aircraft, including an S-70i Black Hawk utility helicopter, were dispatched to extinguish a huge fire that struck a residential area in Tondo, Manila on Wednesday, Aug. 6. Aside from the Black Hawk, a Huey II and a PZL W-3A Sokol, both utility helicopters, were...
GUMACA, Quezon – A fire razed an appliance warehouse in Barangay Bagong Buhay here on Wednesday morning, Aug. 6, resulting in P10 million damage to property. Arson investigators said the fire started at about 4:30 a.m. and declared fire out at 7 a.m. Mayor Webster Letargo thanked firefighters...
Three individuals were injured, while 1,500 families were affected in a massive fire that broke out on Wednesday morning, August 6, in a densely populated residential area in the vicinity of Aroma Compound along Road 10 in Barangay 105, Tondo, Manila. The blaze sent thick plumes of smoke into the...
ILOILO CITY – An elderly woman was killed in a fire on Saturday morning in this city two weeks after burying her husband. Authorities identified the victim as 75-year-old Teresita Senon Panelo, who was trapped on the second floor of her house in Barangay Oñate in Mandurriao District. The Bureau...
DAVAO CITY – More than 30 families left homeless by a fire in Purok Medalla in Barangay Buhangin Proper on Friday evening, Aug. 1, received immediate aid from Davao City second district Rep. Omar Vincent Duterte and acting Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte II. They distributed hot meals, drinking water,...
Five pet dogs perished in a fire that broke out in a residential building along J. Del Rosario Street in Barangay Tumana, Marikina City, on Friday afternoon, August 1. The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) said the fire started in the kitchen area on the second floor of the two-story house owned by...
TACLOBAN CITY – Twenty-three families lost their homes in a fire that destroyed 21 houses in Barangay 97, Cabawalan, this city, on Thursday, July 31. Initial investigation disclosed that the fire originated from unattended cooking in the kitchen of one of the houses. The fire immediately spread...
