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'I remember when my parents used to receive letters in the US from family back home. The red, white, and blue stripes on the edges of the envelopes were an icon of my youth.' Voices
. The gorgeous neoclassical building had stood proudly on the banks of the Pasig for a century and counting. Unfortunately, this five-alarm fire is nothing new and is a symptom of fundamental flaws in urban design and safety regulations. Fortunately, however, its regeneration is just as inevitable.
However, that’s History with a capital “H,” and I can’t relate to any of that on a personal level. In this incident and in many other major fires since the mid-20century, we can’t blame foreign occupiers or war. We can only blame our own collective shortcomings when it comes to fire hazard preventions.
I look at the photos of the flames puffing black smoke signals into the vast Manila sky like a distress call to the heavens, and I’m reminded that this resilient city has seen this same scene many times before. So much so that Manila should buy the name “Phoenix” from Arizona. Throughout the decades, before messenger apps, Filipinos sent and received letters to and from each other, reinforcing the threads that tethered our global diaspora back to the homeland.
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