Fire in the morning and storm coming up tonight

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At past 6 this morning as I was talking to a friend on the phone, my attention was diverted to a neighbor running. I excused myself from my friend and went out to check and saw very thick smoke in the sky nearby and therefore went out into the street and saw very big flames burning a house a few hundred meters from our home. I was worried then because I knew that one of those old people I visit on Sundays lived near the fire scene. I was worried for her because she was on a wheelchair. I went to their house and saw that she was already out into her garden. The burning house was at the back of her home. Good thing 3 fire trucks of the city and 2 from the Chinese volunteer fire brigade arrived immediately. A little later, a fire truck from a neighboring town also arrived. The fire was put out but the house was almost razed to the ground because it was an old house made of wood and some concrete so it was easily eaten up by the flames. Earlier tonight, my neighbor and I received advisories from our telco that our province is under Signal No. 1 for a storm that is coming in 36 hours. Earlier this morning, flights and and sea travel were already cancelled and and it's unfortunate for nursing graduates of 3 universities here who are about to take their board exams in a neighboring island. I hope the storm dissipates and does not do damage anywhere else.