{"id":88396,"date":"2017-02-08T00:21:37","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T05:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=88396"},"modified":"2017-02-08T00:21:37","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T05:21:37","slug":"15000-residents-lose-homes-in-manila-shantytown-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/08\/15000-residents-lose-homes-in-manila-shantytown-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"15,000 residents lose homes in Manila shantytown fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines \u2013About 15,000 residents of a shantytown beside Manila&#8217;s port have lost their homes in a fire that raged overnight before being put out Wednesday morning, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Fire department officials said 1,000 homes were gutted in the sprawling Parola Compound, where several families often share tiny houses running along narrow alleyways.<\/p>\n<p>Fire officer Edilberto Cruz said seven people suffered minor injuries in the fire that broke out Tuesday night then quickly spread. No fatalities were reported.<\/p>\n<p>Three evacuation centres were opened, and food and water are being provided to the 3,000 families who lost their homes, said welfare officer Regina Jane Mata.<\/p>\n<p>But hours after the blaze was put out, many of the people were still huddled on a nearby road with their belongings, including clothes and even washing machines and electric fans.<\/p>\n<p>The fire snarled traffic, blocking delivery trucks going to and from the port.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines \u2013About 15,000 residents of a shantytown beside Manila&#8217;s port have lost their homes in a fire that raged &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":63994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,95],"tags":[620,600],"class_list":["post-88396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-fire","tag-manila","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88396","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=88396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}