MANILA, Philippines — An estimated 1,000 families were left homeless in a fire that consumed reportedly half of the slum community of Isla Puting Bato in Tondo, Manila for over nine hours on ...

Military helicopters doused the raging orange flames which had taken hold of the closely built slum ... Bato in Manila, on Sunday. Manila Fire District said around 1,000 houses were burned in ...

Like other slums in the Tondo area of Manila, Philippines, there’s no clean water supply or sanitation. Residents pay to fill water containers from a nearby condominium, and trenches funnel ...