Fire in Manila – level 1

23-03-2018 07:00

In Manila, Philippines, there is a hotel and casino. A fire starts there. The fire kills four people. It traps other people.
Three hundred guests have to evacuate. Helicopters help save some people.

One woman says that she thinks that the fire starts at the ground floor. Then the fire quickly moves and grows.

Police want to know where the fire starts. They do not know if it starts in the casino. They do not know if it starts in an area that is under construction.

Difficult words: trap (when something stops you from leaving), evacuate (leave a place for safety), ground floor (the floor that touches the ground in a building), under construction (when people are still building something).

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