CORDOVILLA (Nino Luces) CAMALIG, Albay – Sixteen veteran mountaineers are on standby to climb Mayon Volcano and look for the four people onboard the Cessna plane owned by Energy Development Corp. (EDC) that crashed near the crater of Mayon Volcano over the weekend. George Cordovilla, team...
RESCUERS struggle to reach the wreckage of the missing Cessna plane in Camalig, Albay after it was located on Sunday afternoon, Feb. 19. (Albay Rep. Joey Salceda FB) CAMALIG, Albay – Rescuers struggled to reach the slopes of Mayon Volcano after the wreckage of the missing Cessna 340 plane was...
A CARGO boat sank in the sea of Quezon, Quezon on Monday, Feb. 20. The captain and crew were rescued. (Photo via Danny Estacio) QUEZON, Quezon – A cargo boat loaded with empty Liquefied Petroleum Gas tanks sank after it was struck by strong waves generated by inclement weather in Lamon Bay...
A rescue worker walks past partially collapsed buildings in the city of Antakya on February 19, 2023. (Sameer Al-DOUMY/AFP) ISTANBUL, Türkiye – Türkiye has ended rescue efforts in all provinces except the two hardest hit by last week's massive quake that killed tens of thousands of...
THE wreckage of the missing Cessna plane in Bicol was located in Camalig, Albay more than a day after it went missing. (Albay Rep. Joey Salceda FB) LEGAZPI CITY (PNA) – After more than 32 hours of search and rescue efforts, the wreckage of the Cessna aircraft 340, which was reported missing on...
LEGAZPI CITY (PNA) – At least 218 personnel, 34 vehicles, 11 drones, and four K9 dogs were deployed to Barangays Anoling and Quirangay in Camalig, Albay to beef up the search and rescue efforts for a missing Cessna aircraft and its two pilots and two Australian passengers. SUSPECTED fuselage of...
THE Camalig rescue group convenes to discuss possible strategies to locate the missing Cessna 340A plane before dawn on Sunday, Feb. 19. Mayor Carlos Irwin Baldo led the meeting. (Photo courtesy of Mayor Caloy Baldo) LEGAZPI CITY, Albay -- At least 185 responders are now in Barangay Quirangay and...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Four high-risk prisoners were transferred to Metro Manila after authorities uncovered a plot by the Abu Sayyaf Group to rescued their comrades incarcerated at the San Ramon Penal Colony here. Bureau of Corrections officials immediately secured all the prisoners after...
Two more dead people were retrieved by the Philippine Inter-Agency Humanitarian Contingent (PIAHC) as their search, rescue, and retrieval (SRR) operations continued in the earthquake-battered Turkiye, the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) disclosed Wednesday, Feb. 15. Members of the urban search and...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A passenger cargo vessel rescued five persons from a motor banca that capsized in the sea of Basilan on Valentine’s Day. PASSENGERS of a capsized motor banca disembark from a passenger cargo vessel that rescued them at the Basilan Strait on Tuesday, Feb. 14. (PCG photo) The...
BUTUAN CITY (PNA) – Personnel of the Philippine Coast Guard in Northeastern Mindanao (PCG-NEM) and the Coast Guard Station in Dinagat Islands (CGS Dinagat) rescued on Sunday, Feb. 12, a distressed cargo vessel in the sea of Hibusong Island in Dinagat Islands province. COAST Guard personnel...
As hope for finding survivor diminishes, the Philippine government decided that it will no longer send a second batch of search and rescue (SAR) responders to Turkiye a week after it was devastated by a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake. Photo: Office of Civil Defense / OCD Assistant Secretary...
