LDRRMO to Extend Help in Negros

The Cebu City’s Local Disaster Risk-Reduction Management Office (LDRRMO) is planning to help the flood victims in Bayawan City, Negros Oriental if they feels that their services are needed.

LDRRMO operations officer Alvin Santillana said his office may recommend to Mayor Michael Rama to create a team of paramedics and personnel that would help their counterparts in Negros Oriental to attend the needs of the flood victims.

It was reported that about 5,000 people had been affected by the flood as a result of heavy downpour in that part of Central Visayas. The water overflows from the rivers.

Although there is no typhoon in Cebu, but the government weather forecasters said the public may experienced thunderstorms
until Friday because of an inter-tropical convergence zone affecting Palawan, the Visayas and Mindanao.

Cebu City-based Pag-IBIG manager Rio Teves said some of his relatives in Bayawan City were forced to abandon their respective
houses and transferred to safer places because of flood.

Reports reaching Cebu City-based Office of Civil Defense (OCD) said two big rivers in Bayawan City overflowed after more than 12 hours of heavy rains that also caused landslides in several areas. The evacuees were temporarily placed in public schools and other safe areas.

Initial reports said some of the affected barangays in Bayawan City include Banga, Kalumbuyan, Ubos, Nangka, Maninihon, Poblacion,
Villareal, Nangka, Suba and Pagatban.

But aside from Bayawan City, floods also affected some barangays in the nearby municipality of Siaton, namely Apoloy, Cabangahan, Poblacion I, Poblacion II, Poblacion IV, Catikugan, San Jose, Caticugan, Malo, Giliga-on and Bonawon.

The report said that personnel from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) had already provided the evacuees with food, water and medicines.

While Bayawan and other nearby places were hit by flood, the residents of Cebu City’s northern barangays experienced heavy rains of 6.2 milimeters of rainfall on Sunday afternoon, but the weather forecasters said it was only brought by the inter-tropical convergence zone and Typhoon Ramil, which hovered near the Batanes Islands.