By Stephen FordDemotix
A fireball started in a poor community in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, razed 257 houses and left 407 families homeless. The fire was ignited in the night on the 9th March 2010. The one attending fire engine was no match for the blaze and the community housing was totally destroyed. Phnom Penh, 13/03/2010.
Nighttime on Tuesday 9th March 2010. A firebomb ignited on the western side of a Phnom Penh slum community gutted 257 homes. A total of 407 families living in the "104 and 105 community" were rendered homeless overnight. One solitary fire engine attended and saved the end house from total destruction. Charred stakes, memorial markers to the lost homes, penetrate through the foundation layer of stagnant detritus.
Children and adults sift the debris for treasure-metal cutlery or any surviving object.
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