BAGUIO CITY (PIA) — The Cordillera Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council remains on heightened alert as Typhoon Julian continues to bring moderate to heavy and at times intense rains and gusty winds to the different parts of the region.
On Sunday (Sept. 29), the CRDRRMC elevated the alert level of the council’s Emergency Operation Center (EOC) from blue to Red alert, to ensure heightened monitoring, timely and responsive weather-related warnings and advisories, optimum coordination and interoperability, and response readiness.
The CRDRRMC also advised all local DRRM councils in the region to synchronize their alert level with the regional EOC and continuously submit situational reports. Likewise, to activate their response cluster on standby mode and to conduct pre-emptive evacuation to landslide/flash flood high risk areas.
The CRDRRMC earlier checked the readiness of the members of its response cluster in a Pre-Disaster Risk Assessment (PDRA) meeting for Tropical Cyclone Julian last Friday (Sept. 27).
Meanwhile, the Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office Cordillera (DSWD-CAR) assured enough supply of food and non-food items that are strategically prepositioned in different DSWD and LGU warehouses that are ready for augmentation.
As of Sept. 30, the DSWD has a stockpile of 64,313 Family Food Packs and non – food items worth around P51.91 million and a standby fund of P2,999,920.
For the initial data on the Typhoon Julian affected population, the DSWD-CAR Disaster Response Management Division reported that as of 12 noon,Sept. 30, there are 4,305 families or 14,986 persons affected in 31 barangays in the provinces of Abra, Ifugao and Mountain Province.
On the displaced population, one family is inside an evacuation center in Tubo, Abra, while 138 families composed of 427 persons are temporarily staying in houses of relatives and friends.
The DSWD-CAR also recorded one partially damaged house in Kiangan, Ifugao.
As of 11am, Tropical Cyclone Wind Signal number 2 was hoisted over the Cordillera provinces of Abra, Apayao and Kalinga, while Ifugao, Mountain Province and Benguet (including Baguio City) were under TCWS No. 1. (JDP/CCD-PIA CAR)
