Скачать или смотреть Thousands left homeless in Manila shanty town fire

(11 May 2012) 1. Various of firefighters hosing burning houses
2. Wide of road filled with fire trucks
3. Mid of residents crying and shouting at fire fighters
4. Mid of residents crying, burning houses in background
5. Mid of fire consuming buildings, fire fighters spraying over wall
6. Mid of residents helping an old woman saying UPSOUND (Tagalog) "Our home, our home."
7. Mid of residents carrying belongings
8. Wide of fire fighters hosing burning houses
9. Various of digger ramming concrete wall
10. Residents escaping from newly created gap in wall
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11. SOUNDBITE (Tagalog) Bonifacio Carta, Chief Inspector, Manila Fire Department:
"More or less there are five hundred houses that were burned and there are two thousand families affected."
12. Wide of fire victims with their belongings on the road
STORYLINE.
Officials in the Philippines say a fire that swept through a sprawling squatters' colony on Manila Bay's rim has left two people missing and some 10,000 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 had to call coast guard boats to spray water from the bay.
Fire fighters tackled the huge blaze which lit the evening sky as residents of the tightly packed community looked on in misery.
Carta said the destruction of such a large number of buildings left hundreds homeless.
"More or less there are five hundred houses that were burned and there are two thousand families affected."
Heavy machinery had to be used to break through perimeter walls and enable people to escape from the flames.
Many of the residents lived in makeshift buildings on stilts.
Officials said people left homeless had been evacuated to a nearby sports complex and at least three people had been taken to hospital.

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