The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) urged the public on Tuesday, Sept. 7, to keep vigilant and take precautionary measures as typhoon "Jolina" brings heavy rainfall and destructive winds in Luzon and Visayas. FLOODING. A flooded highway in the northern part of...
Undersecretary Ricardo Jalad, administrator of the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) and executive director of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), engaged in a verbal tussle with Bacoor, Cavite Mayor Lani Mercado-Revilla over the supposed non-release of funds for the...
Undersecretary Ricardo Jalad, the administrator of the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) and executive director of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), has been infected with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), it was confirmed Friday, Aug. 27. Undersecretary Ricardo...
The non-stop rains brought by southwest monsoon (habagat) have already affected more than 200,000 individuals in six regions, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) reported Monday, July 26. Flood along Roxas Boulevard in Manila on Sunday, July 25, 2021. (Ali Vicoy/...
Three persons were killed while five others were injured in Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) and Ilocos (Region 1) due to incidents related to non-stop rains and strong winds brought by the southwest monsoon (Habagat), the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC)...
The evacuation of residents in Batangas and nearby provinces were on-going amid the continuous volcanic activity of Taal. In a meeting with President Duterte late Tuesday night, July 6, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, who also chairs the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council...
More than 5,000 residents in Batangas have left their homes and sought shelter in evacuation centers as Taal Volcano continued to exhibit earthquakes and sulfur dioxide emissions which were related to its magmatic unrest, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) reported...
In less than 24 hours, nearly 1,000 residents in Batangas have left their homes to seek safer shelters amid the continued unrest of Taal Volcano, a disaster management official disclosed Saturday, July 3. Residents in Laurel, Batangas take temporary shelter at Barangay Ticub Elementary School on...
The threat posed by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has become an additional burden to thousands of people in Batangas who fled their homes following the phreatomagmatic (magma and steam-driven) eruption of Taal Volcano. Residents of Laurel, Batangas seek temporary shelter at Ticub...
The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) urged the public on Friday night, July 2, to be vigilant against a major eruption of Taal Volcano, which it said was "possible" in the coming days. NDRRMC Executive Director Ricardo Jalad presents updates on the volcanic...
More than 1,300 individuals in Batangas were affected by the sudden phreatomagmatic (magmatic gases and steam) eruption of Taal volcano on Thursday afternoon, July 1. The eruption sent residents scurrying out of their homes to escape hot ash plumes that were ejected into the air by the volcano,...
Mass evacuations of more than 14,000 residents are currently being conducted in high-risk barangays of Agoncillo and Laurel towns of Batangas after Taal Volcano spewed a kilometer-high phreatomagmatic plume and was eventually placed under Alert Level 3 which means magmatic intrusion at the main...
