More than 1,000 homes destroyed in Manila slum fire started by a CANDLE
This is the scene of devastation caused by fires which ravaged more than a thousand homes as they swept across slums in Manila in the Philippines leaving hundreds of families homeless in a single night.
Families caught in the blazes can be seen sitting inside the rubble of their gutted homes with nothing left but scraps of metal and charred possessions.
One fire was started by a lit candle in the house of Tisay Mohammad at Isla Verde in his house in Boulevard village, while another started in a shantytown in Punta, Sta. Ana, destroying at least 1000 homes and displacing hundreds of families.
The fires were thought to have spread very quickly because many houses in Manila are made of wood, and are built very close together, making them an incredibly flammable fire risk.
Miraculously, there have been no reported casualties among the districts affected by the fires, as hundreds of people who were affected were evacuated to Quezon Elementary School.
One of the fires that reduced a community to ash lasted for five hours before the fire department managed to extinguish it with a specially designed task force.
The fires spread quickly because of the flimsy and light materials, such as wood, that are used to build houses in the impoverished area
Leaving hundreds homeless, the fire is just another tragedy to hit the Philippines in recent years, adding more pain to the already damaged community
Children scavenge among twisted metal and corrugated iron sheets in the ruins of a slum after a fire in Davao City destroyed more than
a thousand homes in a slum
The fire in the Philippines' largest southern city, sent residents running for their lives according to officials
The residents can be seen sorting through the rubble of their damaged, burnt and broken houses attempting to find anything left worth salvaging
The families displaced were originally evacuated during one of the blazes, but many have now returned to the charred husks of their
former homes to see if there is anything undamaged by the flames
Among the most popular salvage items are corrugated iron and cooking supplies, allowing the displaced communities to take a brief
respite from sorting through their destroyed lives with a simple meal
Many of the people displaced now face the arduous process of slowly rebuilding with the little that they have left after the fires
A Filipino man collects salvageable materials among debris following an overnight fire that razed the slum area
According to the Bureau of the chief fire inspector, around 100 houses were destroyed at one shantytown, leaving more than 200 families homeless
Since their initial evacuations, and the fire dying down, Filipino families have been forced to return to their charred slums and attempt
to salvage what they can
The fires were the latest in a long line of incredibly damaging fires that have ravaged the Philippines for several months in quick,
intensive bursts
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