A woman carries her pet to safety as an early morning fire engulfed houses made of light materials in a residential compound in Barangay Apolonio Samson, Quezon City, January 1, 2015. The conflagration which reached general alarm rendered 2, 000 families homeless and killed 3 residents.
Firefighters, with their split second heroics save dogs and kittens by pulling them out of the burning houses.
Two people were hurt, more or less P3 million worth of properties destroyed while an estimated 2,000 families are now homeless after a large fire said to be caused by the firecracker kwitis hit a heavily populated barangay in Quezon City on New Year’s Day, a fire official disclosed. MB