In Dubai, United Arab Emirates, a huge fire razed a residential building that had left hundreds of overseas Filipino workers homeless. Most of them had left nothing, only with the clothes they were wearing.

In one of an article, last November 23 stated, the most of the Filipino was working when the incident happened at around 5 p.m.

A needing five hours was put in order to stop and conquer the fire in the Al Shamsi building. The firefighters had the hard time and had struggle. However, the fire ended at 10:30 am.

According to officials, “We coordinated with the Dubai Police’s Human Rights section on the scene and were told that the victims were given temporary accommodation for one night. We are planning to set up booths to get the names of the people affected to assess their immediate need and have a focused drive on helping them together with the Filipino community,”