The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) on Thursday, June 11, sent relief supplies and deployed Patient Transport Vehicles (PTVs) to communities affected by the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Southern Mindanao earlier this week. In coordination with the Office of Civil Defense (OCD)...
National and local response clusters mobilized thousands of personnel, aircraft, and sea vessels to intensify search, rescue, and retrieval (SRR) operations and relief distribution in Mindanao following a magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Maasim, Sarangani, which has so far killed 45 people and...
The Office of Vice President Sara Duterte on Tuesday, June 9, said it has deployed its Kalusugan Food Truck to assist frontliners involved in search, rescue, and retrieval operations following the powerful magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck parts of Southern Mindanao on June 8. Through the Office...
Foreign embassies in the Philippines, including France, China, Israel, Japan, and the United States, expressed condolences and support following the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Mindanao on Monday, June 8. As rescue and assessment operations continue in affected areas across Mindanao,...
A powerful magnitude 7.8 offshore earthquake struck Maasim, Sarangani on Monday morning, June 8, triggering widespread panic, infrastructure damage, and a tsunami warning that forced thousands of coastal residents across Mindanao to flee their homes. The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) and the...
The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) convened government agencies and uniformed services at the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) Operations Center in Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City on Friday, June 5, as the national government tightened preparedness measures for the...
The Quezon City government on Wednesday, May 20, extended financial and relief assistance to 130 families affected by separate fire incidents in seven barangays last week as part of its continuing post-fire recovery efforts. Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte led the distribution of assistance to...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) has alerted all its units as flooding incidents were reported in several areas of Luzon and Mindanao following days of heavy rains. PNP chief Gen. Jose Melencio C. Nartatez, Jr. said police units, especially in affected areas, were tasked to immediately mobilize...
The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) said Monday, May 18, that it has received a new water tanker from the private sector, further expanding its emergency water delivery fleet to 31 units and strengthening its disaster response operations nationwide. The new tanker was turned over at the PRC National...
(UPDATED) The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) stepped up road clearing, water delivery, and mask distribution in Albay on Sunday, May 3, as ashfall from Mayon Volcano spread across 52 barangays, with authorities keeping Alert Level 3 in place and enforcing a six-kilometer Permanent Danger Zone (PDZ)...
The Navotas City government has intensified efforts to contain the fire at the old landfill, with responders working round the clock despite difficult terrain slowing progress. The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)–Japan Disaster Response Expert Team (JDR), in its exit briefing,...
Japanese disaster response experts have approved the fire-control measures being implemented at at the old Navotas landfill, following an on-site inspection on Friday, April 24. The seven-member Japan Disaster Relief (JDR) Expert Team, deployed by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)...
