Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto expressed his gratitude to the city 's residents and emergency responders for their efforts in ensuring everyone 's safety from the adverse effects of Super Typhoon Uwan, which battered the entire Luzon region, including Metro Manila on Sunday, Nov. 9. "Salamat...
BACOLOD CITY – Several local government units (LGUs) in Negros Occidental have mobilized rescue and relief teams to assist communities in northern Cebu province devastated by the magnitude-6.9 earthquake on Sept. 30. The One Negros Response Team, backed by the provincial government, departed for...
In times of disasters and calamities, Office of Civil Defense (OCD) personnel are among the first to be deployed for emergency response. That is why it pains OCD spokesperson Junie Castillo to learn from the news of the massive corruption involving flood control projects in the government. During a...
TEAM ULIS TRAINING OFFICERS conduct a training session to the men and women of the Philippine Coast Guard and the Philippine Coast Guard Auxilliary, on firefighting, emergency first aid and K9 handling. (Together Ensemble-Team ULIS photo) Good people still walk around, among them a team of French...
They go to work when people are advised to stay home; brave the storm to lead people out of harm’s way; enter damaged structures to rescue trapped residents; and do what heroes do — save lives. After work is done, they are just like any worker — they go home to their families, have a meal, and...
BAUKO, Mt. Province – A 59-year old man was unearthed from a landslide in Sitio Boga, Monamon Sur in this town on Thursday morning, July 28, in what could be the first recorded death in Cordillera region after a magnitude 7 earthquake hit northern Luzon on Wednesday, July 27. Photo Courtesy...
TACLOBAN CITY - The sun is finally up. Hope sparks as the search, rescue, and retrieval operations continue to find more survivors and fatalities from the missing individuals in the rubble created by successive landslides at the height of tropical storm Agaton’s onslaught in Baybay City and...
