Vice President Leni Robredo on Sunday, March 27, sent Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) ground team and volunteers to lead her relief operations in Batangas, where Alert Level 3 has been raised because of the restive Taal Volcano.
The Vice President tweeted her gratitude to the team on the ground and the Robredo People’s Council (RPC), which also joined the relief operations.
“Thank you to our DRR ground team and RPC volunteers who have been doing relief operations in Batangas,” she wrote.
According to Robredo, they have distributed hot meals, bottled water, relief packs and N95 face masks in evacuation centers.
She added “they will be covering more evacuation centers” as part of their relief operations.
The Facebook group Agoncillians for Leni and Kiko also showed photos of a truck bringing the relief goods from the Office of the Vice President (OVP).
More than 9,000 residents of nearby towns of Taal Volcano have already been forced to evacuate following the phreatomagmatic events from the volcano that led to the raising of Alert Level 3 in these areas.
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Evacuees are from the barangays of Bilibinwang and Banyaga in the municipality of Agoncillo and Boso-boso, Gulod and eastern Bugaan East in Laurel, Batangas.
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) issued the warning because of “pyroclastic density currents and volcanic tsunami should stronger eruptions subsequently occur.”
Phivolcs recorded two of such events on Sunday morning and 14 volcanic earthquakes in the past 24 hours, including 10 volcanic tremors that lasted two to three minutes and four low-frequency volcanic quakes.