CEBU CITY, Philippines — A massive residential fire swept through a densely populated area in Barangay Cogon, Pardo, Cebu City on Tuesday evening, December 9, destroying 74 houses, displacing more than 300 residents. Fire investigators estimated the…
PULILAN, Bulacan—A patient confined in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) died while 17 others were safely evacuated after a fire struck a hospital in Bulacan before dawn on Monday, December 8. Reports reaching the Bulacan Provincial Disaster…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — A total of 27 families were displaced by a fire that broke out in Sitio May Flower in Barangay Duljo-Fatima, Cebu City early on Sunday morning, December 7. Initial assessments by the Department…
HONG KONG, China — Hong Kong has arrested 14 suspects in a probe into the city’s deadliest fire in decades, finding “substandard” netting on building exteriors that failed to halt flames from spreading, authorities said Monday. The…
ANKARA – Hong Kong authorities on Monday said that “substandard netting” used in housing blocs may have contributed to the recent deadly blaze, which killed 151 people in a residential complex in Tai Po, according to local media…
HONG KONG, China — Sobs could be heard across Hong Kong’s Victoria Park at the weekend as hundreds of migrant workers mourned victims of Hong Kong’s worst fire in more than a century and prayed for missing…
HONG KONG — Hong Kong firefighters found dozens more bodies Friday in an intensive apartment-by-apartment search of a high-rise complex where a massive fire engulfed seven buildings, and authorities arrested another 8 people involved in the towers’…
MANILA, Philippines — Fifty-eight Filipinos are now safe and accounted for following the level 5 fire that razed the Tai Po residential area in Hong Kong, but the Consulate General said one was injured and one remains…
HONG KONG — Firefighters battled for a second day to extinguish a blaze at a high-rise apartment complex in Hong Kong on Thursday, as the death toll rose to 94 in one of the deadliest blazes in…
HONG KONG, China — A devastating fire tore through a Hong Kong high-rise residential complex, killing dozens of people with hundreds still missing. The inferno — the financial hub’s worst in decades — sent shock waves through…
MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines is in touch with Hong Kong authorities over reports of Filipinos trapped in the burning residential complex in Tai Po District. The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Thursday there is no confirmed…
HONG KONG, China — A huge fire engulfed a crowded Hong Kong high-rise complex, killing at least 36 people and leaving more than 200 unaccounted for in the city’s worst blaze in decades. The fire, which started…
