Pictures of the Week: May 25 – 31, 2002

Fire and Water
A resident douses a still-smoldering stilt as he tries to salvage whatever is left of his home following an early morning fire which gutted a coastal neighborhood in Isabela, the capital of the island province of Basilan in southern Philippines. No one was reported killed in the three-hour fire which rendered more than a thousand families homeless but came at a time when the province is dealing with the hostage crisis involving two more Americans and a Filipino nurse for over a year now