An Inferno burning in the slum area of Metro Manila causes 9 people died.Residents grabbed clothes, furniture and appliances as they fled the burning Barangay Damayang Lagi in Quezon City shortly after midnight, a survivor said.

“The fire spread so fast, everything was gone in minutes,” Arman Altoveros, a 43-year-old pedicab driver, told AFP as he scavenged for charred pots and pans on burnt rubble that used to be his wife’s small canteen.

The fire marshal said that the fire has started at the three-storey house which causes it to spread from nearby houses. The fire was finally put out in three hours but it left a 9 dead people, 4 injured and 120 families homeless.The fire was came out at 12:15am and put out 3:33am. It is from the second floor of the house of Elsa Jama, were all the fatalities where residing. It appeared that Jama’s unit collapsed during the fire, trapping its residents.