{"id":43994,"date":"2015-03-04T17:45:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T09:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=43994"},"modified":"2015-03-04T18:00:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T10:00:31","slug":"payatas-fire-leaves-nearly-7000-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/03\/04\/payatas-fire-leaves-nearly-7000-homeless\/","title":{"rendered":"Payatas fire leaves nearly 7,000 homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_23485\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23485\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/firefighters.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23485\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/firefighters-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Shutterstock Photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/firefighters-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/firefighters.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23485\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shutterstock Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Fire broke out in three informal settler areas in Manila and Quezon City\u00a0between Monday night and Tuesday morning, leaving almost 7,000 families homeless.<\/p>\n<p>Two fires began in Parola Compound in Tondo, Manila\u00a0between Monday night and Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The area, which was also the most damaged, now has more than 6,000 homeless families.<\/p>\n<p>The first fire began at\u00a0Gate 14 of the Parola Compound at 6:27 p.m. on Monday. It eventually spread up to Gate 56.<\/p>\n<p>According to Johnny Yu, head of the Manila Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office, the areas affected by the are covers up to eight hectares.<\/p>\n<p>The fire reached\u00a0the general alarm, the highest fire alarm which mandates all available trucks in Metro Manila to rush to the site to help out.<\/p>\n<p>It\u00a0lasted for about 12 hours before it was placed under control, was declared out by 7:06 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the third fire broke out on Tuesday, at the Gate 1 of the Parola Compound around 1 p.m. on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>An estimated 700 families lost their homes during the second fire which was placed under control at 2:33 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Vice Mayor Francisco &#8220;Isko Moreno&#8221; Domagoso urged the Manila Electric Co. to conduct an inspection on the electrical wiring in the said communities to prevent more fires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Fire broke out in three informal settler areas in Manila and Quezon City\u00a0between Monday night and Tuesday morning, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":23485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","category-uncategorized","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43994","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=43994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}