Lost Homes In Fires,another Shanty Fire

[Jollygoodfellow]

This is sad for those who lost their homes, I could not imagine how loosing all you have would feel. The pictures taken are very good quality and a credit to the photographer.

MANILA, Philippines (AP) Officials say a fire that swept through a sprawling squatters’ colony on Manila Bay’s rim Friday May 11, 2012, has left two people missing and some 10,000 others homeless.

Several residents jumped into the bay, clutching small appliances, to escape Friday’s blaze in Manila’s Tondo district.

Chief Inspector Bonifacio Carta of the fire department says firemen had difficulty getting enough water to put out the fire and to call coast guard boats to spray water from the bay.

Many of the residents lived in shanties on stilts. Officials say people left homeless have been evacuated to a nearby sports complex.

http://photos.denverpost.com/mediacenter/2012/05/photos-manila-shanty-town-fire-leaves-thousands-homeless-in-philippines/35495/

[Old55]

Had a squatter area fire in Cebu City Friday too. Sadly happens much too often.

[mariposa]

I know this place boss. this is nearby in Parola, Tondo Manila I lived there when I was eight years old. . And most of our life we cannot sleep peacefully because at night we are threaten that our home will be destroyed and burned, the nearby San Miguel Corp. packaging wanted us to leave our home but the residents fought for life. And this is a sad news that until now there's a scenario like this. I have experienced the same fire when I was 8 and that's horrible.

Edited May 12, 2012 by ekonomizta

[i am bob]

Great presentation Tom.

Having those photos really helps to have it hit home just how sad it is.

[Mike S]

You know what is really sad ...... they showed a man in his 20's (just guessing) ..... running down the alley with only his white briefs on clutching his rooster ..... of all the things he had that were destroyed by fire only his rooster was important to him ...... they showed him on the local news ..... very very sad that your most cherished item in all the world is a rooster ..... :SugarwareZ-034:

[Call me bubba]

. of all the things he had that were destroyed by fire only his rooster was important to him ..

could have been his next meal?

as he was taking it to a "friends" to get it prepared :th_thbarbaque:

this part of my post. maybe bending the rules, YET i hope its allowed.

I read quite often of these fires , and 1 thing I keep hearing,reading is

that the firefighters have difficulty in reaching the blaze/fire.

If the powers to be, care SOOO Much about them. as they portray.

why havent these Roads/alleyways been widen?

wouldnt this solve the issue of faster response to the fire, so that the damges can be more controlled,reduced. even a lower number of lives lost?

Edited May 13, 2012 by Call me Bubba

[Jake]

You know what is really sad ...... they showed a man in his 20's (just guessing) ..... running down the alley with only his white briefs on clutching his rooster ..... of all the things he had that were destroyed by fire only his rooster was important to him ...... they showed him on the local news ..... very very sad that your most cherished item in all the world is a rooster ..... :SugarwareZ-034:

Didn't see the actual news coverage of this particular rooster. Could it also be that it was his prized champion rooster

as in "sabong" cock fighting?

[Old55]

Bubba, I have read and been told some of the fires are set to remove squatters from an area.

In Cebu City the authority's have attempted to widen and straighten roads for better access see the link for the latest.

Like Jake said the rooster could be valuable and the only thing the guy had of real value. Or he could just be "rescuing" it. :lol:

Anyone know how much a good fighting cock goes for?

http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=806858&publicationSubCategoryId=107

[Mike S]

Well two things I didn't really see if he was a champion cock or not but I would tend to believe that coming out of a squatters area he might be better suited for the cooking pot ..... but just saying if I were there I would have tried to find some clothes and then the cock .... but then I wasn't there :lol: and I suppose he could have been stealing the chicken instead of rescuing it ...... (just kidding) ..... anyway the first thing that crossed my mind when I saw the news was what I wrote above .... :tiphat:

Now as to widening the roads or allies that would take an act of god as these squatters will defend their illegal housing with their lives ..... they tried doing that somewhere here in Cebu a while back with a bulldozer and it was complete bedlam ...... a good example of this is look at the sidewalk vendors .... they start out only taking a few feet of sidewalk and the next thing you know that are spilling over into the street ...... demanding all the time ... but it's mine so I can do what I want with it ..... point in question ..... in the next block from where we live a restaurant used to put out a few tables outside in the evening and remove them when daytime came ...... now they have put up a welded 2in. pipe railing around the whole front of their building all the way to the gutter .... so now you have to walk in the street if you want to go by ....... and the city or anyone else does anything ..... absolutely amazing ........ we as foreigners can't own a place to live and they can take over property they don't even own ......... ya gotta love it ..... :hystery: :hystery: :hystery: :hystery:

[Ashanti]

in the next block from where we live a restaurant used to put out a few tables outside in the evening and remove them when daytime came ...... now they have put up a welded 2in. pipe railing around the whole front of their building all the way to the gutter .... so now you have to walk in the street if you want to go by .......

You can actually report them to the city engineers office (not sure which office) to remove their illegal structure.

And youre right, its not a laughing matter and you should watch out you don’t live next to them. I had heard so many reports of fights between neighbours because of illegal structure. What happens as in your restaurant neighbours, if they acquire a vehicle, obviously now they cannot park the vehicle at their front. So whose space do you think they will use??????????? Yap …………….. next door, and bugger you if their vehicle block your gate. :rolleyes: