MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Landslides hit a campground and a house in New Zealand and emergency crews were trying to rescue people buried in rubble, officials said Thursday. Emergency services were called to the slide at the base of Mount Maunganui on New Zealand’s North Island after 9:30...
LEGAZPI CITY – The Department of Social Welfare and Development in Bicol (DSWD-5) extended immediate assistance to families affected by a landslide in Barangay Bariis, Matnog, Sorsogon, which claimed two lives on Saturday. The families were asleep when the landslide happened, resulting in the...
LEGAZPI CITY, Albay – A 22-year-old man and a 19-year-old woman were killed in a landslide that buried their house in Barangay Bariis, Matnog town, Sorsogon province after midnight Saturday, Jan. 17. Police Lt. Col. Malu Calubaquib, Police Regional Office-5 spokesperson, said initial reports from...
CEBU CITY – Six more bodies were recovered from the collapsed dumpsite in Barangay Binaliw here on Wednesday, Jan. 14, raising the death toll in the trash slide to 19. All fatalities have been identified while rescuers are still searching for 17 missing. SFO3 Wendell Villanueva, information...
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) reopened a collapsed section of the Bukidnon-Davao highway in Sitio Kipolot, Barangay Palacapao, Quezon, Bukidnon, on Wednesday, Jan. 14. DPWH Secretary Vince Dizon said the 460-meter gravel road is now at least 90 percent complete. The reopening...
CEBU CITY – The death toll in the collapsed dumpsite in Barangay Binaliw here increased to 13 as two more fatalities were recovered on Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 13. SFO3 Wendell Villanueva, information officer of the Cebu City Fire Department, said rescuers are still searching for 23 persons...
CEBU CITY – Nine bodies have been recovered from the collapsed building that was buried by a pile of garbage when a dumpsite caved in last week in Barangay Binaliw here. Councilor Dave Tumulak, chairman of the City Council Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Committee, said the last fatality...
The Philippine Navy (PN) on Monday said the Naval Forces Central (NFC), the naval command responsible for Visayas, has deployed a search, rescue, and retrieval (SRR) team to help in the ongoing rescue mission following the landslide at the landfill in Barangay Binaliw in Cebu City last Jan. 8. In a...
CEBU CITY – Two persons were confirmed dead and 12 were rescued from the collapsed dumpsite in Barangay Binaliw here. As of 5 p.m., Jan. 9, 35 individuals remained missing, according to the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP)-Cebu City. With several persons still missing, Mayor Nestor Archival has...
Search and rescue teams were deployed by the Philippine National Police (PNP) in Cebu City following a landslide at a landfill that killed at least one individual while 38 others were still missing, a ranking official disclosed Friday, Jan. 9. Police Lt. Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr., acting PNP...
An avalanche of garbage and debris buried or trapped workers in low-slung buildings in a landfill in Cebu City, killing one person, injuring a dozen, and leaving 38 others missing, officials said Friday. Dozens of rescuers retrieved 13 people alive overnight and were searching for the missing still...
CEBU CITY – Several persons were rescued in a landslide that hit a landfill in Barangay Binaliw here on Thursday afternoon, Jan. 8. Nine persons were rescued and taken to the hospital as of 7 p.m. The landfill was operated by private company Prime Water Solution Inc. City Councilor Joel Garganera...
