{"id":233249,"date":"2019-10-02T21:36:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T01:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=233249"},"modified":"2019-10-02T21:36:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T01:36:52","slug":"star-city-fire-under-control-will-be-closed-christmas-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/10\/02\/star-city-fire-under-control-will-be-closed-christmas-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Star City fire under control; will be closed Christmas 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Some Shots i&#8217;ve taken Inside and Outside of Star City<\/p>\n<p>Photo: NeoBautista Studios&#x1f4f8; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OIUBzRHxiT\">pic.twitter.com\/OIUBzRHxiT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u30cd\u30aa (@itsNeoBautista) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/itsNeoBautista\/status\/1179106669755678720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The fire that struck the popular amusement park, Star City, in Pasay has been declared under control early Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Pasay City Fire Marshal Paul Pili said the fire has been declared under control at 4:32 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The fire started around 12:22 a.m. Wednesday in the stockroom of stuff toys and other prizes and later spread to other areas inside the facility.<\/p>\n<p>Fire officers said the blaze quickly spread to other parts of the building and huge plumes billowed into the sky as firefighters immediately responded to control it.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the amusement park, the Manila Broadcasting Company (MBC), a sister company of Star City, was also gutted by fire.<\/p>\n<p>No casualties were reported in the fire that reached Task Force Alpha status at 2:32 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>After two hours, the blaze was raised to Task Force Bravo, meaning 19 fire trucks were deployed to the area.<\/p>\n<p>Investigation showed the roof of the Snow World attraction collapsed while the Star Theater was also destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the MBC management said that they are closely coordinating with authorities to determine the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite the catastrophe, MBC FM stations Love Radio, Yes the Best, and Easy Rock will continue regular broadcasting operations while DZRH is expected to go back on-air within 48 hours or less,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStar City, which was hit hard by the fire, will be closed through the Christmas season,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>Star City spokesperson Rudolph Jularbal said the amusement park might only reopen in October 2020.<\/p>\n<p>He said they are considering giving financial support to affected employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Shots i&#8217;ve taken Inside and Outside of Star City Photo: NeoBautista Studios&#x1f4f8; pic.twitter.com\/OIUBzRHxiT \u2014 \u30cd\u30aa (@itsNeoBautista) October 1, 2019 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":233250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-christopher-lloyd-caliwan","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233251,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233249\/revisions\/233251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}