‘Butchoy’ displaces thousands in Central Luzon; one dead
>> Tuesday, July 19, 2016
CAMP OLIVAS, Pampanga
-- Moonsoon rains enhanced by Typhoon
“Butchoy” displaced thousands in Central
Luzon with one dead, while a total of 7,452 families in three provinces of
Central Luzon had to be evacuated amid flooding and landslides that spawned the
region, disaster officials said yesterday.
The Office of Civil
Defense 3 (OCD-3) reported that a total of 32,104 individuals had to be
evacuated in the provinces of Bulacan, Bataan, and Zambales – the hardest-hit
areas of Central Luzon during the transit of Butchoy, which strengthened the
“habagat” (southwest monsoon) and caused heavy rains.
“We have 58 affected
barangays in Dinalupihan, Hermosa, and Orani in Bataan; Calumpit in Bulacan;
and Olongapo, Botolan, Iba, San Antonio, San Felipe, and San Narciso in
Zambales,” said Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council
(RDRRMC) Chairman and OCD-3 Director Josefina Timoteo said.
“We also have seven
reported partially damaged houses in barangay Beddeng in San Narciso and one
each in barangays Mabayuan and East Bajac-Bajac in Olongapo City,” Timoteo
said.
Around 150 families in
Bataan and Zambales temporarily sought shelter in 14 evacuation centers.
In terms of
assistance, Department of Social Welfare and Development has provided P360,940
worth of relief items to Zambales and P72,188 worth to Bataan.
Meanwhile the
Department of Health Region 3 (DOH3) has provided P250,000 worth of medicines
and hygiene kits to Zambales.
Casualties
But the first fatality
related to the bad weather was reported by the National Disaster Risk Reduction
and Management Council or (NDRRMC) in Cainta, Rizal.
Undersecretary Ricardo
B. Jalad, NDRRMC executive director, said John Michael Lunes, 14, of Kabanalan
Karangalan Village, Cainta, drowned while swimming in a nearby creek last
Friday morning. His body was retrieved the same morning.
Meanwhile, a
15-year-old teenager identified by the NDRRMC as Kyle Jarandal, of Disiplina
Village, Barangay
Ugong, Valenzuela
City, remained missing after drowning in the Tullahan River while collecting
recyclable materials also last Friday.
Roads
damaged
The Department of
Public Works and Highways (DPWH) reported yesterday that heavy rains damaged
two major roads in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR).
A section of the
Asin-Nangalisan-San Pascual Road in Benguet was washed out by the strong
current of a flashflood, rendering it impassable.
Also damaged and now
impassable is a section of the Junction
Talubin-Barlig-Natonin-Paracelis-Calaccad Road in Mountain Province.
The DPWH is
undertaking emergency construction of a detour bridge for the affected road
section in Benguet as well as a temporary bailey bridge along the damaged road
in Mountain Province. -- Argyll Cyrus B. Geducos
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