MANILA, Philippines — Fire hit Fisher Mall on Quezon Avenue in Barangay Santa Cruz in Quezon City at around 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday, according to a Twitter alert posted by TXT Fire Philippines.

Until I sat down for lunch with the Del Rosarios who own it, I wrongly thought that the newly-opened Fisher Mall (at the corner of Roosevelt and Quezon Avenues, Quezon City, where the Pantranco ...