MANILA, Feb 25 (NNN-PNA) – Two people died after a fire gutted a crowded residential community, in Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila, the city’s disaster risk reduction and management office said, yesterday.
The Bureau of Fire Protection said, the victims, a woman and her son, were trapped when flame engulfed their home and 20 other houses in the neighbourhood on Friday night.
It added that, it took firefighters nearly three hours, until early yesterday morning, to completely extinguish the fire, that affected at least 119 families or almost 500 residents.
The displaced families have been housed in makeshift tents set up by the local government in a school and covered court, local authorities said.
The bureau launched an investigation into the cause of the blaze.– NNN-PNA
