ZAMBOANGA CITY – Ten Malaysians and Filipinos from distressed ships were rescued by the Philippine Navy and two foreign vessels in the sea of Tawi-Tawi province during inclement weather on Christmas Eve. TEN Malaysians and Filipinos were rescued by the Philippine Navy and two foreign vessels in...
AUTHORITIES conduct a rescue operation in a flooded area in Ozamiz City, Misamis Occidental on Christmas Day. (FB) CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (PNA) – Christmas did not come easy to some local government units in Northern Mindanao as they welcomed the supposed most joyous event of the year by...
Authorities have conducted a search and rescue (SAR) operation to find four fishermen who, two days before Christmas, went missing while venturing at sea in Cebu while the province was being battered by gale force winds due to northeast monsoon. Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) The missing fishermen...
A 47-year-old woman was rescued by joint government forces after she jumped off the Intramuros-Binondo Bridge to Pasig River in Manila on Friday, Dec. 23. Photo: PCG / Facebook Rescue personnel from the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), and Philippine National Police...
SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union – The provincial government recently trained 146 first responders on high-angle search and rescue to upgrade their skills and knowledge in principles of life saving techniques on a high angle slope. Trained by the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management...
The Pasig City local government received 10 new rescue boats to assist in the calamity response operations of the city’s Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (DRRMO). Photo from Councilor Quin Cruz FB Page / MANILA BULLETIN Pasig City is a partner beneficiary of the Keep Hope Afloat...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Philippine Coast Guard rescued nine passengers from a distressed motor banca in the sea of Zamboanga del Norte province at dawn on Friday, Dec. 2. THE Philippine Coast Guard rescues nine passengers of a distressed motor banca in the sea of Liloy, Zamboanga del Norte....
Nine crew members of a motorbanca were rescued from a nearly nine-hour ordeal after their vessel encountered a sea mishap off Zamboanga del Norte on Friday, Dec. 2, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said. Photo by PCG The PCG identified the rescued individuals as Henry Burong, 35; Diego Burong, 35;...
ZAMBOANGA CITY (PNA) – The Philippine Navy (PN), in collaboration with the Maritime Command Center (MCC) in Tawi-Tawi and its Malaysian counterpart, MCC-Tawau, have rescued a Philippine-flagged wooden-hulled vessel with 27 people aboard drifting at sea for four days and four nights, Navy...
Five Vietnamese women who were allegedly forced to work as prostitutes by two foreign nationals were rescued during an entrapment operation conducted by members of the Southern Police District-Special Operation Unit (DSOU) in Paranaque on Friday, Nov. 25. Brig. Gen. Kirby John Brion Kraft, SPD...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Philippine Navy rescued eight passengers of a distressed motor vessel in Tawi-Tawi on Tuesday, Nov. 22. NAVAL Task Group Tawi-Tawi rescued eight passengers from a distressed sea vessel in Tawi-Tawi. (Photo by 2MBde) A report from the Armed Forces-Naval Forces Western Mindanao...
Seven Filipino passengers were rescued by a Japanese vessel after the motorbanca they were riding got damaged near the border of the Philippines and Indonesia, leaving them drifting at sea for seven days, the Philippine Navy (PN) said on Tuesday, Nov. 22. Courtesy of Naval Forces Eastern Mindanao...
