MANILA, Philippines — An international aid effort that included helicopter drops from the aircraft carrier USS George Washington ferried food and water to areas that have seen little of either since a […]
Four Haiyan stories of fear, the fight for survival
Four people caught in Typhoon Haiyan in recall the horror, the fear, the fight for survival brought about by Typhoon Haiyan. A GRANDMOTHER’S LOSS Narcissa Abordo, a 65-year-old grandmother from Tacloban, awoke […]
Doctors overwhelmed by sick, needy in Philippines
MANILA — Hundreds of injured people, pregnant women, children and the elderly have been crowding into a small building behind the control tower of this city’s airport, one of the few places […]
Desperation grows among Philippine survivors of Typhoon Haiyan
MANILA — Drenched by rain and increasingly desperate, typhoon-stricken Filipinos rushed fences and pleaded with guards Tuesday at the battered airport serving as a tenuous lifeline to an international aid effort confronted […]
Philippines sifting through horror in Typhoon Haiyan
MANILA — Typhoon-ravaged Philippine islands faced a huge relief effort Monday as bodies lay in the streets and survivors pleaded for food, water and medicine. Police guarded stores to prevent people from […]
Philippine typhoon: Tales of heartbreak, courage; hunger, anarchy
MANILA — Each story is more heartbreaking than the last; tales of the courage and good fortune it took to survive amid utter destruction, balanced in many cases by the last glimpse […]
“Philippines typhoon eyewitness: ‘There was death everywhere’
Philippines typhoon eyewitness: ‘There was death everywhere’ Click To View Photos MANILA — When Danny Larsen arrived in the Philippines city of Tacloban less than a week ago, he found it to […]
Typhoon Haiyan- Eyewitness
MANILA — When Danny Larsen arrived in the Philippines city of Tacloban less than a week ago, he found it to be “a lovely town — very local, not many foreigners. We […]
Typhoon Haiyan: Thousands feared dead in Philippines
MANILA, Philippines — The death toll from a powerful typhoon that swept away coastal villages in the Philippines with a tsunami-like force is likely in the thousands, and could top 10,000, officials […]