AFP, PCG send disaster response teams to areas hit by LPA rains
Humanitarian assistance and disaster response (HADR) units from the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) have been deployed to various areas in the National Capital Region (NCR), Eastern Visayas (Region 8), and Mimaropa (Region 4B) to assist communities that were affected by heavy rainfall brought by a low pressure area (LPA).

Col. Xerxes Trinidad, Army spokesperson, said two light urban search and rescue (SAR) teams from the 525th Engineer Combat Battalion, 51st Engineer Brigade were mobilized to conduct HADR operations in Metro Manila on Friday, Jan. 5.
The Eastern Visayas-based 802nd Infantry Brigade of the 8th Infantry Division also placed its HADR teams on standby alert for possible search and rescue operations.
As of writing, Trinidad said all roads and bridges in Leyte, Southern Leyte, and Biliran remained passable despite flooding there.


Meanwhile, troops from the Philippine Marine Corps’ (PMC) Marine Battalion Landing Team 4 and PCG evacuated 1,975 families in the coastal municipalities of Brooke’s Point and Sofronio Espanola in Palawan on Wednesday, Jan. 4
Chest-deep floods were experienced by some residents in Brooke’s Point following the continuous rains in Palawan.
The PCG said the rescue operations were facilitated by their personnel living near Brooke’s Point who were supposed to be on a New Year’s break to augment personnel working on that day.