Fiery Sunday
This was the scene at Old Road Sagkahan this morning, a densely populated fish port in Tacloban City. A conflagration razed hundreds of houses in the area, disrupting the lives of hundreds of residents.
These are all the earthly possessions of the one of the residents, loaded and ready for evacuation. Fire
Onlookers, myself included, fill up the streets, sometimes blocking the entry of firetrucks.
A fish bucket being filled with whatever water is available; a fireman takes a break from the firefighting action.
An improvised dustpan, an improvised bucket, and water on the sidewalk.
News reports have declared at least 500 houses razed by the fire. Donations for the victims will be accepted by the Rotary Club of Tacloban at the Rotary Center, Tacloban Convention Center Compound, Tacloban City. Contact # 325-7372.
A walk with my camera 
I love your blog, and am following it~ What wonderful capture in pictures~! ♥♥♥
thank you
Orlando, I love your street photography. I was born in the Philippines and spent my childhood there, came to the US at 12. I especially love the photograph of the children playing in the rain. A great reminder from my childhood. Anyway, I take a lot of photographs as well and very much enjoy the art of photography and capturing images and nature’s beauty! It is true, a picture is worth a thousand words, or maybe more!
hi Natalia, thank you. You should come visit the Philippines again; much have changed over the last decade.
Fantastic images. B/W gives it a real gritty realism.
thanks.
powerful and moving set of pictures…i myself had a very late lunch during that day, i have to wait for my own firefighter hero to be home..sunburned after the blazing and scourging heat of fire and sun…
thank you, Twinkle, and yes, I saw your firefighter. My hats off to the courageous men and women who willingly sacrifice life and limb for the safety and welfare of others.
I enjoy your blog–your bw street photography is wonderful. Seeing it encouraged me to begin setting my camera on the bw function, which I had never done before. I have Silver Efex pro and can convert colored images to wonderful bw, but there’s something about shooting it with the camera that is appealing–an entirely different way of looking at the subject in front of the camera.
I love the 2nd image in this grouping–the reflections in the sunglasses… Good work. thanks for the inspiration.
thank you, Linda. I did try Silver Efex pro and it is a great software. I had lots of gritty & grainy b/w photos in early 2010, which I’ve toned down since I’ve started using Lightroom. I still shoot in full color, composing the shot for b/w.
sad to see those fire victims. i myself been a volunteer fire fighter back home ( TACLOBAN, LEYTE ) 1974 – 1987 . we are the one who organized the first volunteer fire brigade there. that DELTA fire brigade is one of the group , that branches from our creation. i missed those days, when i was training our men and new recruits in fire fighting technique. thanks for the posting. it is nice to bring back old memories. ( the good old days )
one of these days i’ll ride with the volunteers just to make you miss the good old days even more.
heart pounding experience! you captured them well. so sad 😦 but people working together racing against time. thank you.
if only all the people were there to help instead of just being obtrusive onlookers, but then again, everything possible was already being done.