Victims of a fire rest at a relief complex in Manila on May 18. Some 1300 families temporarily live at the sports complex after a huge fire engulfed a shanty town destroying homes on May 11.

A government staff carries bowls of cooked food for distribution to the May 11 fire victims during a feeding program inside a sports gymnasium on May 18 in Manila, Philippines. Some one thousand fire victims from a squatter colony are temporarily housed at the sports gymnasium to receive relief items and free meals.

Residents try to salvage recyclable materials from what used to be houses in the aftermath of a massive fire that engulfed hundreds of makeshift homes in a shanty town community in the Tondo district of Manila, Philippines, May 12.

Residents search for usable items at the site of a fire in a shanty town in Manila.

Residents try to salvage recyclable materials on what used to be houses in the aftermath of a massive fire.

Residents untie the hose of a cement mixer to douse water on a fire engulfing houses at a slum community in Manila on May 11. At least 1000 houses were razed in the fire, the cause of which is yet unknown, leaving 5000 families homeless, local media reported.

Residents paddle their makeshift boat to safety as fire engulfs houses at a slum community in Manila on May 11.

Filipino residents flee from a fire at a shanty town in Manila, Philippines, May 11. According to initial reports from fire investigators, around 5,000 residents lost their houses built on top of a breakwater at Port of Manila dock area. Chief Inspector Bonifacio Carta of the Manila Fire Department said that they coordinated with the Philippine Coast Guard and asked for additional fire boats to support in controlling the blaze.

A man floats in the water with some of his belongings as his neighborhood is engulfed in fire on May 11 in a slum area in Manila, Philippines. Officials say the fire that swept through a sprawling squatters' colony on Manila Bay's rim has left two people missing and some 10,000 others homeless.

Filipino residents are seen during a fire at a shanty town in Manila, Philippines, on May 11. According to initial reports from fire investigators, around 5,000 residents lost their houses built on top of a breakwater at Port of Manila dock area. Chief Inspector Bonifacio Carta of the Manila Fire Department said that they coordinated with the Philippine Coast Guard and asked for additional fire boats to support in controlling the blaze.

Filipinos return to their burned homes to look for usable items after a pre-dawn fire in Pasay City, south of Manila, Philippines, Jan. 1. One person died as Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) firefighting units responded to at least 12 fires of varying degrees in the National Capital Region starting in the early hours of the new year. At least three of the incidents were believed to be related to firecrackers amid ongoing New Year's Eve celebrations, the BFP said.

An elevated highway in the financial district of Manila is enveloped by smog caused by pyrotechnics and firecrackers the morning after New Year's celebrations on January 1. Hundreds of Filipinos were injured by firecrackers and stray bullets while fires gutted homes in the capital as revellers celebrated the new year.

Filipinos get up to a roof with water buckets during a fire at a residential area in Quezon City, east of Manila, Philippines, Nov. 13. At least 50 houses were gutted and a still undetermined number of residents were affected by the blaze in an urban poor district, authorities said. Fire investigators are still determining the cause of the incident.

A Filipino child cries as his family recovers belongings from a fire at a residential area in Quezon City, Nov. 13.

A newly born baby girl named Danica May Camacho, the Philippines' symbolic seven billionth baby, is weighed in the Fabella Maternity hospital in Manila on October 31. The world's population will reach seven billion on October 31, according to projections by the United Nations, which says this global milestone presents both an opportunity and a challenge for the planet.

Midwives hold Danica May Camacho up for the cameras.

Danica May Camacho is coddled by her mother Camille as United Nations resident coordinator Jacqui Badcock, left, hands over a gift and Philippine Health Secretary Enrique Ona, right, looks on, during a welcoming ceremony after she was born at a government-run maternity hospital in Manila. Weighing 2.5 kilos, the baby was delivered shortly before midnight October 30 amid an explosion of flash bulbs from a media contingent that had waited for hours at the delivery room.

Protesters hold placards with slogans in front of the office of the American Chamber of Commerce in the financial district of Makati, in Manila, the Philippines, on October 14.

Protesters hold banners showing support for Occupy Wall Street protesters during a rally in Manila on October 14.

Residents living beside a river carry belongings as they evacuate to higher grounds in Navotas, north of Manila, Philippines Tuesday Sept. 27, 2011 as Typhoon Nesat hits the country.

A Filipino crosses a swollen river in Las Pinas, south of Manila, Philippines on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011.

Residents brave heavy rains and strong winds as they cross a makeshift wooden bridge during an evacuation from their flooded homes due to Typhoon Nesat in Legazpi City, Albay province, south of Manila on Monday, Sept. 26, 2011.

Myna birds seized from illegal traders are seen inside a police station in Manila, the Philippines on August 18. Several endangered animal species were seized from three illegal traders in Manila on Wednesday, a police official said.

Accused trader Luz Estacio sits inside a jail as she looks at a serpent eagle, one of the seized animals, at a police station in Manila on August 18.