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Maritime Vessel Shipping line 1 Date Deaths 1 Missing 1 Survivors 1 Remarks SS Corregidor: Compania Maritima 17 December 1941 900-1,200: Unknown 282 The ferry was sailing to the Visayas and was carrying around 1200-1500 passengers, mostly refugees fleeing the bombing of Manila by the Japanese during the Second World War, when it struck a mine off Corregidor Island and sank in five minutes.
At least 474 people were involved in the rescue operation, mostly from units of the Philippine Army, the Bureau of Fire Protection, the Philippine Coast Guard, local government agencies and Apex Mining. Sniffer dogs were also deployed to look for victims.
12 May 1904. Malabang, Lanao district, Moro Province. 53 (all of Filipino families of employees of the American military government stationed in the town) A band of Moros from the Rio Grande valley, led by a certain Datu Alis, perpetrated the attack. [15] Moro Crater massacre (Battle of Bud Dajo) 10 March 1906.
A fire killed 15 people Thursday in a small apparel factory in a Philippine residential area, where firefighters were delayed by flooding, traffic and a wrong address, a fire protection official.
At least 29 people were killed after a passenger ferry caught fire in the southern Philippines on Wednesday evening. Some 250 people were aboard the MV Lady Mary Joy 3 bound for Sulu province from ...
A Philippine ferry carrying 82 passengers and crew caught fire as it was approaching a port south of Manila on Friday, and at least 73 of those aboard have been rescued, including many who jumped ...
As the Chief National Fire Marshal of INP Office of Fire Protection: F/Maj. Primo D. Cordeta 1978 – 1989 F/BGen. Ernesto G. Madriaga 1990 – 1991 As the Chief, Bureau of Fire Protection: F/BGen Ernesto G. Madriaga 1991 – 1992 OIC F/Maj. Gen. Mario Tanhanco: 1992 – 1993 F/BGen. Alfonso Torres Clemente 1993 – 1994 SSUPT Bonifacio Japson ...
Ozone Disco fire. / 14.63500°N 121.03583°E / 14.63500; 121.03583. The Ozone Disco fire in Quezon City, Philippines, broke out on March 18, 1996, leaving at least 162 people dead. It is officially acknowledged as the worst fire in Philippine history, [1] [2] and among the 10 worst nightclub fires in the world. [3] [4]