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Transcript
00:00Two people were injured while 500 families were affected by the fire in Santa Cruz, Manila last night.
00:05A facility of Manila City Jail is about to collapse, so hundreds of inmates were evacuated.
00:11Here is the first news, Jomer Apresto.
00:17This is how big the fire is that the firefighters are trying to extinguish in the area of Barangay 310 in Santa Cruz, Manila.
00:24The fire started last night at 9 p.m. and it was quickly extinguished by five alarms.
00:29This means that the firefighters will not be able to get out of the 20 trucks that need to be responded to.
00:34The residents carried their belongings one by one.
00:38Others were not saved except for the images of San Tonino and Nazareno.
00:43Some were the first to be saved, their pets.
00:46According to the barangay, they were surprised because the fire started quickly
00:52in the third floor of a residential building in the playground compound.
00:56We were not able to bring the fire extinguisher because the fire started quickly.
01:01It started from our house in Bungad near Barangay 310 and we were brought to the LRC.
01:09The fire also spread near the facility of Manila City Jail.
01:13Some of the persons deprived of liberty who were confined here were evacuated.
01:18According to the Bureau of Jail Management and Penalty, they were immediately transferred to another part of the city jail, the Daang Daang PDL.
01:25The Manila City Jail was not affected by the fire, said the Bureau of Fire Protection, but it was also inserted to pump water.
01:32The road is very narrow so that we can get the focal points of the fire.
01:41At the same time, there were a lot of people. We were blocked when we entered.
01:50No one was injured. Two women were injured.
01:55One senior citizen was burned in different parts of the body.
02:00According to the BFP data, there were 500 families who lost their homes.
02:05The estimated value of the burnt property is more than P3.7 million.
02:11Among those who lost their homes, Mother Michelle was the only one who came home from work when the fire happened.
02:18It's really hard. Of course, it's Christmas and this happened.
02:22All the hardships, just one flash of light, and it's over.
02:26The BFP is still investigating the cause of the fire.
02:29For now, the Manila Department of Social Welfare is listing the names of the residents who were burned.
02:35According to the barangay, some residents are coming here and claiming that they were burned in order to get help from the government.
02:44This is the first news, Jomer Apresto for GMA Integrated News.

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