- A massive fire swept through a crowded slum in the Philippine capital city of Manila, destroying houses and leaving up to 15,000 people homeless.Four people were injured in the fire that broke out on February 7 night and raged for 10 hours as hundreds of firefighters hauled their hoses across rickety, tin roofs to reach the flames.About 3,200 houses were destroyed, a fire investigator said, adding that all of these houses are made of light flammable materials.Manila authorities said between 9,000 and 15,000 people in the area were left homeless. Seven people were injured in a fire that broke out late on Tuesday night in Parola Compound in Tondo, Manila, and raged for 10 hours as it spread rapidly, engulfing more than 1,000 makeshift houses, fire officer Edilberto Cruz told reporters. Photos from the scene show residents fleeing the flames while carrying possessions including refrigerators,TVs and washing machines.Images taken in the immediate aftermath to the blaze was extinguished show the scale of the devastation.Meanwhile, the Philippines Red Cross was responding to a number of fires in other districts of Manila on Wednesday.Ambulances and fire tenders have been deployed to Malabon, part of Metro Manila, 8km (5 miles) from the Tondo region, as firefighters tackle a blaze in a residential area.The incidents comes a week after a huge industrial fire at a factory south of the capital claimed the life of one worker and injured more than a 100.Fires are common in factories and shanty towns in Manila, one of the most populated cities in the world.Last year 1,000 homes in Manila's Tondo slum district were gutted after firecrackers released to celebrate the New Year set a hut ablaze, sparking a raging fire.One man was killed and hundreds injured in the incident.
More than 10,000 people are left homeless after a fire ravages a densely populated neighborhood of the Philippines capital Manila.