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BY GLENN VIDAL BEUP
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January 19, 2018
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ROXAS City – Families in Barangay Agbatuan, Dumarao, Capiz who were evacuated due to a “critical ground movement” that threatened a landslide after days of downpour have yet to return home.
They were housed in private residences away from the landslide-prone portion of the village and in evacuation centers, according to local government and disaster management officials.
Alert level 3 has been raised in the village since Monday.
Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office head Esperidion Pelaez said 48 families, or 158 individuals, were evacuated on Monday.
But according to Agbatuan barangay captain Amado Domingo, “over 30 households” were affected. “They were brought to evacuation centers in Dumarao.”
The PDRMMO was waiting for advice from the local government on what to do with the affected families.
Once Dumarao has given its advice, Pelaez said he will speak with Gov. Antonio del Rosario with regard to the support the provincial government can provide the families.
Dumarao mayor Edgardo Arancillo said they will provide the evacuees relief goods until the municipal disaster management office says it is safe for them to return home.
On Monday a Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) sensor near the foot of a mountain indicated a “critical ground movement” in the upland village, prompting the agency to raise an alert and advise forced evacuation.
Residents noticed a “huge crack on the ground, which appeared to sink,” said Domingo.
The continued rains for more than three days may have softened the soil, and this could trigger a landslide, according to a former Phivolcs officer, Ramil Atando. “An alert level 3 means there is a big possibility for an earth collapse.”
The rains also caused flooding in 70 barangays across Capiz, most of them in Cuartero, Dumalag, Maayon, Mambusao, Panitan, Pontevedra, and Sigma, the PDRRMO said.
Forty-six barangays remained flooded as of Thursday while floodwater in 24 others have subsided, said the PDRRMO. (With a report from Philippine News Agency/PN)
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