ANGELES CITY – Rescue radar equipment detected four moving entities beneath the rubble of the collapsed building here on Friday, May 29. Mayor Carmelo Lazatin instructed responders to immediately intensify rescue operations to locate possible survivors. But this does not automatically confirm the...
Responders pulled two more bodies from the rubble of a collapsed building in Angeles City, Pampanga, bringing the death toll to six, as rescue teams continue to navigate heavily unstable concrete debris. Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) spokesperson Commodore Noemie Cayabyab said one of the fatalities...
ANGELES CITY – A fifth body was successfully extricated from the debris of the collapsed building here as search and rescue operations continued early Thursday morning. City officials said that the male victim was carefully pulled out from the rubble at around 7:57 a.m. and was turned over to the...
Angeles City Mayor Carmelo “Jon” Lazatin II said the city government will provide psycho-social support, financial assistance, medical and food packages, and transportation arrangements to the victims of the building collapse and their families with the Department of Social Welfare and...
Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Jonvic Remulla on Wednesday, May 27, ordered rescuers to continue search and rescue (SAR) operations at the collapsed building site in Angeles City, Pampanga, reversing an earlier shift to retrieval operations announced by disaster...
Newly-installed Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Francis Tolentino suspended on Tuesday, May 26, the regional director of Central Luzon following the building collapse in Angeles City over the weekend that has so far left at least four people dead. Tolentino said the one-month...
A legislative inquiry into the collapse of a nine-story building in Pampanga province has been filed in the Senate. In filing Senate Resolution No. 406, Sen. Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan said it is imperative for the Upper Chamber to look into the collapse of the edifice where four persons have...
Officials on Tuesday visited the site of the building collapse in Barangay Balibago, Angeles City, Pampanga. Pampanga Gov. Lilia “Nanay” Pineda and Angeles City Mayor Carmelo “Jon” Lazatin II, with other officials and responders, offered prayers and condoled with families of the victims....
Search and rescue efforts have officially ended with efforts now shifted to retrieval operations as no signs of life were found beneath the debris of the collapsed building in Angeles City, Pampanga, authorities stated on Tuesday, May 26. The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) and local government...
The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) announced Tuesday, May 26, that disaster responders have officially terminated the search and rescue phase at the site of the collapsed nine-story building in Angeles City, Pampanga. OCD deputy spokesperson Diego Mariano said operations have shifted to recovering...
The Angeles City government on Monday night stopped search and rescue operations after no more signs of life were detected in the collapsed nine-story building. Four people were killed, 26 were rescued alive, and 17 are still missing in the tragedy. Authorities will go on retrieval operations...
If the deadly building collapse in Angeles City, Pampanga over the weekend highlighted anything, it 's the need for the immediate passage of the proposed new Philippine Building Act (PBA). Thus, said Surigao del Sur 1st district Rep. Romeo Momo Sr., chairman of the House Committee on Public...
