At least nine people were reported to have died in a fire that hit a two-storey house in Muntinlupa City on Sunday morning, Dec. 18. Muntinlupa City fire marshall Supt. Eugene Briones said the fatalities were found on the ground floor of the house in Barangay Putatan. At least one person remains...
EDITORS DESK Exactly a month ago, COP27 or the 2022 United Nations Climate Conference (aka 27th Conference of Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change), concluded without a “consensus” — supporters say that there were big strides especially on the aspect of “loss-and-damage...
LEGAZPI CITY (PNA) – The Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (RDRRMC) and Office of Civil Defense (OCD) in Bicol are continuously monitoring Camarines Norte after a magnitude-5.3 earthquake damaged school buildings and offices in the province on Wednesday, Dec. 7. Eric de...
ILOILO CITY – A Catholic church was damaged in a magnitude-4.8 earthquake that rocked Anini-y, Antique on Friday, Nov. 11. FAITHFUL attend Sunday Mass outside the San Juan de Nepomuceno Church in Anini-y, Antique damaged by an earthquake last week. (Re Gin/FB) Faithful had to hear Mass outside...
A DPWH-Mountain Province District Engineering Office backhoe clears a landslide on the Bontoc-Tocucan Road in Bontoc, Mountain Province. (DPWH-MPDO) BAGUIO CITY – The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) reported P491.117 million in damage to infrastructure in the Cordillera region...
THE Tocolana Ruins in Lal-lo, Cagayan sustained damage in the magnitude-7 earthquake last Wednesday, July 27. (Bec Bautista/LGU Lal-lo) LAL-LO, Cagayan – The Tocolana Ruins here was damaged in the magnitude-7 earthquake that hit Northern Luzon Wednesday, July 27. The Tocolana Ruins is part of the...
ILOCOS SUR -- A total of 3,284 damaged houses here were reported as of Friday after last Wednesday’s (July 27) magnitude 7 earthquake that hit Northern Luzon. There are 96 totally damaged houses and 3,201 partially damaged houses, according to the latest report from the Ilocos Sur Provincial...
DAGUPAN CITY -- One person was reported dead and 39 were injured in Ilocos region after the magnitude 7 earthquake that hit Northern Luzon on Wednesday morning, July 27, according to authorities. Photo from PNP The Ilocos Sur Police Provincial Office said the lone casualty was from Sitio Baudan,...
Batangas 6th district Rep. Ralph Recto is worried that the available National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Fund (NDRRMF), otherwise known as the calamity fund, may be "insufficient for rehabilitation work". The damage caused by the July 27, 2022 earthquake in Abra "We are just in the...
Homes and establishments located in some areas in the cities of Manila, Makati, Pasay, Las Piñas, and Parañaque will have no water for around 18 up to 36 hours on Friday, July 15 to Saturday, July 16, due to repair works following the damage of a Maynilad water pipeline in Pureza St., Manila...
President Duterte is demanding payment from rich, industrialized countries for the damage they are causing by leaving too much carbon emissions that worsen climate change. During his public address on Monday night, Duterte said he does not want to name names of such countries "because they are our...
President Duterte has described his experience of assessing the damage caused by typhoon "Odette" in the various provinces in the Visayas and Mindanao as "soul-bruising". President Rodrigo Duterte (Malacañang photo) But it's the fate of one particular coastal city in Negros...
