Drone footage from the Manila Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office showed raging orange flames razing densely packed stilt homes in Isla Puting Bato, a squalid area of Tondo, Manila.

MANILA, Philippines — Five areas in the city of Manila that were gutted by fire last Sunday, including the depressed community of Isla Puting Bato, have been placed under a state of calamity.

Drone footage from the Manila Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office showed raging orange flames razing densely packed stilt homes in Isla Puting Bato, a squalid area of Tondo, Manila. The ...

Raging orange flames and thick black smoke billowed into the sky yesterday as fire ripped through hundreds of houses in a closely built slum area of the Philippine capital Manila. Manila Fire ...

Nearly half of the 58 flood control projects being implemented by the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) were ...