LANDSLIDE THREAT PROMPTS EVACUATION IN SAMAR VILLAGE
TARANGNAN, Samar: The local government here enforced on Saturday a pre- emptive evacuation of 66 families living in landslide prone areas after days of heavy downpour in Samar province. Tarangnan disaster risk reduction and management officer Justo Derayunan said these families, consisting of 275 individuals from Baras village were moved to evacuation areas in neighboring villages. Baras village is an island, 45 minutes boat ride away from the town center. Derayunan said that on June 29, the landslide sensors installed in the village issued a rating of A2, indicating a critical ground movement in the last 24 hours. They were advised to prepare residents for evacuation. On Friday, the same sensor set up by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, issued A3 rating, indicating a critical underground movement and residents need to be evacuated. Derayunan said they had a hard time convincing some residents to leave the village.
DOH TO DONATE 3 DENTAL BUSES TO PALAWAN THIS JULY
PUERTO PRINCESA CITY: The Department of Health ( DOH)- Central Office is set to donate three units of dental buses to the Palawan Provincial Health Office ( PHO) this month. PHO officer- in- charge Dr. Mary Ann Navarro said the dental buses costing P3.3 million each are part of efforts to strengthen the programs under its Health Facilities Enhancement Program. The buses are fitted with facilities such as dental chairs, x- ray, compressor and others that are necessary to deliver dental services to Palaweños even in distant areas. Navarro said these were funded by the DOH for donation to provinces with residents in distant municipalities that have no immediate access to dental care. She said one bus will deliver dental services to northern Palawan, another to the south, and the other one is for island municipalities.
POLICE BUY- BUST OPERATION TURNS BLOODY IN CALAUAN
CALAUAN, Laguna: A police buy- bust operation conducted on Friday dawn in Makati Ville, Barangay Dayap in this town turned bloody when two suspected drug pushers fired at Calauan operatives. In his report to the Laguna Police Provincial Director Sr. Supt. Joel Pernito on Saturday, the Calauan chief of police, Chief Inspector Luis Perez, identified the slain suspects as Palermo Palon alias “Gata” and Ronald Crisolo alias “Onak,” all residents of Dayap village here. Perez led his team of anti- illegal drug operatives to conduct the buy- bust operation an hour past midnight on Friday in the partly- lit area near the resettlement site. The undercover operation was about to proceed with the entrapment when the suspects drew their firearms and open- fired at the approaching policemen. One suspect was hit first and slumped to the roadside while the other suspect still holding his gun fell on the tricycle’s backseat. The suspected drug pushers died on the spot.