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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]
A massive fire destroyed nearly three quarters of the central business district of Iloilo City. 22 January 1971 – 13 people were killed in a fire that gutted the terminal of the Manila International Airport. 22 January 1975 – 51 people were killed after a fire swept through a factory in a commercial building in Marikina, Rizal.
On May 13, 2015, a fire broke out at the Kentex manufacturing factory in Valenzuela, Metro Manila, Philippines. 72 people were killed in the fire, making the incident the joint-second worst fire disaster in Philippine history alongside the Manor Hotel fire in 2001; only the Ozone Disco Club fire in 1996 had claimed more lives. [a] [1]
Type. Fire. Deaths. 74 [a] The Manor Hotel fire was a fire at the Manor Hotel in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines on August 18, 2001. With a death toll of 74, it is considered to be the second worst structural fire in Philippine history, tied with the 2015 Kentex slipper factory fire and only behind the Ozone Disco fire in 1996. [b] [5]
Fire. Property damage. ₱50 million (approx. ₱5 billion in today's value) A fire in Iloilo City on February 7, 1966 destroyed nearly three quarters of the City Proper area, the central business district of Iloilo City. in the Philippines. [1] It is the single most devastating fire in the city's history. [1]
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 ...
Fort Drum, also known as El Fraile Island ( Tagalog: Pulo ng El Fraile ), is a heavily fortified island situated at the mouth of Manila Bay in the Philippines, due south of Corregidor Island. Nicknamed a "concrete battleship", [1] the reinforced concrete sea fort, shaped like a battleship, was built by the United States in 1909 as one of the ...
An intensity X struck Luzon on July 14–24, 1880. [6] The quake caused severe damage to these major cities in Luzon, most significantly in Manila where a lot of buildings collapsed. Number of casualties are unknown. [7] A quake struck Lucban, Quezon on October 26, 1884.