As hope for finding survivor diminishes, the Philippine government decided that it will no longer send a second batch of search and rescue (SAR) responders to Turkiye a week after it was devastated by a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake. Photo: Office of Civil Defense / OCD Assistant Secretary...
The Philippine Embassy in Turkiye on Sunday, Feb. 12, said it has tapped search-and-rescue teams in Hatay City in looking for a Filipina and her children, who are all believed to still be under the rubble of the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that rocked the country’s southeastern region. Filipino...
Five days after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit Turkiye and Syria, the Philippine inter-agency response team deployed to Ankara conducted a “hasty search” operation on Saturday, Feb. 11, to find survivors beneath the rubbles of collapsed buildings. Photo: Office of Civil Defense / OCD Hasty...
Authorities have yet to find the Cessna light plane two weeks after it went missing after leaving the Cauayan City Airport for Maconacon, Isabela on Tuesday, Jan. 24. TROOPS have yet to find the missing Cessna plane more than two weeks after it went missing in Isabela. (Photo via Liezle Basa-Inigo)...
The inter-agency response team deployed by the Philippine government to Turkiye officially commenced Friday, Feb. 10, its search for survivors in the southern province of Adiyaman in the aftermath of the devastating magnitude 7.8 earthquake that has since killed 21,000 individuals. The Philippine...
Search operations continue two weeks after a Cessna plane went missing in Isabela province, an official of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) bared on Tuesday, Feb. 7. "The search started last Jan. 24. Until now, we haven't found it," CAAP Deputy Director General Edgardo Diaz...
The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) is preparing for the possible deployment of emergency teams that will help in search and rescue (SAR) operations in Turkey following a magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Monday, Feb. 6. Rescue workers and volunteers search for survivors in the rubble of a...
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) has resumed the search and rescue mission for an engine cadet who fell overboard while a motor vessel was travelling to Manila five days ago. In a statement, the PCG said the search and rescue for 22-year-old Marnel Vincent Balaba was halted a day after the incident...
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) rescued 41 passengers and five crew members of a motorbanca that nearly sunk in the vicinity waters of Caboang Bay in Balabac, Palawan on Sunday, Jan. 29. Photo: Philippine Coast Guard / PCG A report from the PCG said motorbanca Jatropha was transiting the vicinity...
CAUAYAN CITY, Isabela – Authorities have yet to spot the missing Cessna 206 light plane in this province. The Police Regional Office 2 said on Monday, Jan. 30, that police and military search-and-rescue teams are scouring the mountainous terrain of Barangays Sapinit and Dicambangan and...
SOLDIERS searching for the missing plane in Isabela. (Army FB) The Philippine Army (PA) on Monday, Jan. 30, said three of its search and rescue teams from the 5th Infantry Division are still searching for the Cessna 206 and its passengers who went missing in Isabela last week. These teams are from...
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) is now verifying the identities of the seven Chinese fishermen who were rescued onboard a distressed fishing vessel off Suluan Island in Guiuan, Eastern Samar on Friday, Jan. 27. (Photo courtesy of PCG) “The Philippine Coast Guard Station Eastern Leyte provided...
