{"id":36988,"date":"2015-01-01T15:22:03","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T07:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=36988"},"modified":"2015-01-01T15:22:03","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T07:22:03","slug":"huge-wind-swept-fire-destroys-hundreds-of-philippine-shanties-at-least-2-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/01\/01\/huge-wind-swept-fire-destroys-hundreds-of-philippine-shanties-at-least-2-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge, wind swept fire destroys hundreds of Philippine shanties, at least 2 injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8030\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8030\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_759119801.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8030\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_759119801.jpg\" alt=\"Shutterstock photo\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_759119801.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_759119801-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_759119801-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8030\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shutterstock photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines &#8212; A huge fire, believed to have been ignited by firecrackers, razed hundreds of shanties in a creekside slum in metropolitan Manila Thursday in one of more than a dozen fires reported across the country as Filipinos welcomed the New Year.<\/p>\n<p>Village officer Noel Carino said the fire, apparently sparked by firecrackers set off by children, erupted after dawn and was spread quickly by strong winds through nearly a kilometre-long (half a mile-long) row of shanties in a village in suburban Quezon city. Firefighters struggled to get near the burning shanties because of narrow alleys.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s really a tragic way to welcome the New Year,&#8221; Carino said.<\/p>\n<p>Residents struggled to save anything they could from the fire, including pet cats and dogs, with many using improvised floating devices to cross a murky river to escape from the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters said hundreds of small shanties were destroyed, displacing thousands of poor families.<\/p>\n<p>Bureau of Fire Protection spokesman Renato Marcial told ABS-CBN TV network that at least 14 fires were reported across the country as Filipinos ushered in 2015 with raucous parties.<\/p>\n<p>At least seven people perished in two of the fires, Marcial said, adding some of the fires were thought to have been caused by firecrackers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines &#8212; A huge fire, believed to have been ignited by firecrackers, razed hundreds of shanties in a creekside &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":8030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36988","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}