Photo Gallery: Fire in Navotas

A four-hour fire broke out thursday night in Barangay Navotas West and Barangay Sipac in Navotas city, leaving at least 1,491 families or 7,157 persons homeless.
Sources:
Community Response for Enlightenment,  Service and  Transformation, Inc. (CREST)

Philippine Daily Inquirer. “Navotas fire victims move to new shelters”. Retrieved 31 August 2010 from http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/metro/view/20100831-289647/Navotas-fire-victims-move-to-new-shelters

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CDRC urges Aquino to spend calamity fund wisely

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