What a good 'boi' -- Coast Guard Working Dog "Appa" searches for landslide survivors with responders in Brgy. Masara, Maco, Davao de Oro. (Photo by Philippine Coast Guard) A dog is not only a man's best friend, at times it is also its savior. Such is the case for "Appa", a Philippine Coast Guard...
Brig. Gen. Felix Ronnie Babac, commander of the 1001st Infantry "Pag-asa" Brigade, speaks at an online press conference on Feb. 10, 2024 to give updates on the search and rescue efforts in the landslide-hit Brgy. Masara, Maco, Davao de Oro. (Screenshot) High-tech military equipment were dispatched...
DAVAO CITY – Responders hope to find more survivors after a three-year girl was rescued on Friday, February 9, three days after the landslide in Barangay Masara in Maco, Davao de Oro. RESPONDERS conduct search and rescue operations in Maco, Davao de Oro, on February 7. ( Office of the Provincial...
Three-year-old Chin-Chin Malacaste is found alive by search and rescue personnel on Feb. 9, 2024 in Barangay Masara, Maco, Davao de Oro after sixty hours of being trapped underground following a landslide on Feb. 6. (Photo by Provincial Government of Davao de Oro / Facebook) (Updated) Sixty hours....
DAVAO CITY – A young girl was rescued from last Tuesday's landslide in Maco, Davao de Oro, on Friday morning, February 9. RESPONDERS conduct search and rescue operations in Maco, Davao de Oro, on February 7. (Armed Forces of the Philippines-Eastern Mindanao Command/AFP) The Provincial...
CEBU CITY – A Tacloban City court has dismissed two petitions seeking to invalidate the search warrant it issued against the site where a controversial chicken breeder farm is located. DEPARTMENT of Environment and Natural Resources-Eastern Visayas personnel collect water and soil samples from a...
DAVAO CITY – Responders are racing against time on Thursday, Feb. 8, to find more survivors in the massive landslide that hit Barangay Masara, Maco, Davao de Oro on Tuesday night, Feb. 6. SOLDIERS retrieve a landslide fatality in Barangay Masara, Maco, Davao de Oro. (AFP Eastern Mindanao Command)...
DAVAO CITY – A massive search and rescue is under way on Wednesday, February 7, following a massive landslide in Barangay Masara, Maco, Davao de Oro, on Tuesday evening, February 6. DRONE photos show the landslide-hit area in Barangay Masara in Maco, Davao de Oro, on February 7. (Photo courtesy...
DAVAO CITY – Eleven persons have been rescued from the landslide in Barangay Masara, Maco, Davao de Oro on Tuesday night, February 6, the Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said on Wednesday morning, February 7. READ:...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Department of Environment and Natural Resources-8 (Western Visayas) and the Leyte Police Provincial Office implemented a search warrant issued by the executive judge of the Regional Trial Court (RTC) here on Friday, January 19, to excavate 30 sites where hazardous wastes...
BUTUAN CITY – Police seized suspected shabu worth P119,136 in buy-bust operations and implementation of search warrant in Agusan del Sur and Butuan City on Friday, January 12. Police arrested eight drug personalities during the operations. The Police Regional Office 13-Regional Operations...
A Philippine Coast Guard personnel looks at the lifeless body of a man found floating off Tingloy, Batangas on Jan. 12, 2024. The PCG retrieves the body and turns it over to the police for identification. (Photo by PCG) The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) retrieved a body of a man that is already in a...