Philippines Mar 16 2013 “Building” “Houses”
500 families displaced by Tondo fire
Updated: 2013-03-18-12:00
MANILA, Philippines - A fire that lasted three and a half hours gutted 200 homes in Tondo, Manila Saturday night, leaving over 500 families in three barangays homeless.
The fire started in a two-story house owned by Nora Cambry in Bara… More >
Philippines Mar 16 2013 “Building” “Houses”
Navotas fire leaves 15 families homeless
Updated: 2013-03-17-12:00
MANILA, Philippines - A fire razed 12 houses, leaving 15 families homeless, and injured two people in Barangay San Jose, Navotas City before dawn yesterday.
Volunteer firefighter Anthony Calzado and resident Cristine Villaflor suff… More >
Nepal Mar 16 2013 “Building” “Houses”
Fire destroys 7 houses in Morang
Updated: 2013-03-17-12:05
PANITYANKI: A house and six sheds were destroyed in fire incidents that took place in two different places in Morang district on Saturday night.
The fire that broke out all of a sudden from a shed gutted other six sheds at Shanishchare nea… More >
India Mar 16 2013 “Building” “Houses”
700 shanties gutted in Kolkata fire, no casualties
Updated: 2013-03-16-10:31
KOLKATA: Around 700 shanties were gutted in a fire in Santoshpur-Maheshtala area on the outskirts of the city today, leaving more than a thousand people homeless.
Police said no injuries or casualties were reported but fo… More >
India Mar 15 2013 “Building” “Houses”
850 shanties razed in 'fire-prone' slum
Updated: 2013-03-17-01:09
KOLKATA: Fire engulfed around 850 shanties at the Sholo Bigha Bustee early on Saturday, barely four months after a blaze claimed a life and property at the slum on Diamond Harbour Road, barely 3km from Taratala crossing.
An FIR has … More >
Nepal Mar 15 2013 “Building” “Houses” “Stores”
Seven houses gutted
Updated: 2013-03-16-22:41
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DHANKUTA: Property worth over Rs 10 million was gutted when a fire ripped through seven houses in Belhara VDC in Dhankuta on Friday night, police said. According to locals, the fire started at about 10:00pm from the house of loca… More >
India Mar 15 2013 “Building” “Houses”
Drunk man sets own home on fire
Updated: 2013-03-16-03:20
GURGAON: An FIR has been lodged against a man by Badshapur police who allegedly set his own house on fire in a drunken state. Police registered the case based on his wife's statement. The accused, Charat Singh, however, is on the run. Quite … More >
Vietnam Mar 14 2013 “Building” “Office bldg.” “Warehouses”
Fire destroys telco's cables, storehouse
Updated: 2013-03-15-09:24
DONG THAP (VNS0— A fire yesterday destroyed tens of coils of cables, a car, motorbike and a storehouse at the Post and Telecommunication Company in the southern Dong Thap Province.
Local authorities including firefighters and soldi… More >
Philippines Mar 14 2013 “Building” “Stores”
Fire hits tire supply store
Updated: 2013-03-15-12:00
CEBU, Philippines - A fire hit a tire supply shop, triggering a thick smoke from sitio Lower Lumar, M.J. Cuenco Avenue, Barangay T. Padilla late yesterday afternoon.
Fire Marshall William Tacaldo, Jr. of the Cebu City Fire Department said they … More >
Philippines Mar 13 2013 “Building” “Houses”
Woman, 31, charred in fire
Updated: 2013-03-14-12:00
CEBU, Philippines - A 31-year-old woman who is said to be suffering from mental problems died in a blaze that engulfed her house early morning yesterday in the mountain barangay of Daantabogon, Tabogon town.
Flordeliza Guinuo could have escaped … More >