Raging orange flames and thick black smoke billowed into the sky Sunday (Nov 24) as fire ripped through hundreds of houses in a closely built slum area of the Philippine capital Manila.
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00:00A massive fire swept through Isla Puting, Bato, a densely packed slum area in Manila
00:07on Sunday.
00:09According to the Manila Fire District, the blaze destroyed around 1,000 homes, believed
00:14to have started on the second floor of one residence.
00:17There were no immediate reports of casualties.
00:20The affected structures housed approximately 2,000 families.
00:25Fire and disaster services deployed 36 trucks and four fireboats, while the country's Air
00:30Force dispatched two helicopters to assist in extinguishing the blaze.