• CHERYL G. CRUZ
The Bacolod local government will also send P2 million in financial assistance to quake-stricken Bogo City, while other LGUs in Negros Occidental continue their medical and relief mission to northern Cebu.
Mayor Greg Gasataya said he talked to department heads Oct. 7 and agreed on a P2 million cash aid to Bogo, the same amount committed Oct. 6 by the Negros Occidental provincial government, also for Bogo, the epicenter of the magnitude 6.9 earthquake Sept. 30.
“The city will be donating P2 million in cash for Bogo,” the mayor said yesterday, adding they are just finalizing the paperwork and voucher, with the funds coming from the city’s donations.
Teams from the 3rd District cities – Talisay, Silay, and Victorias – are also part of the One Negros Response Team that brought aid to victims of the killer earthquake, and holding medical and relief outreach to Bogo and other affected areas.
The Talisay City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management team, headed by Spyxe Gutierrez, also responded to a trauma call in the mountainous areas of Bogo Oct. 3, amidst intermittent aftershocks, to provide emergency aid to residents in distress, the Metro Third Bulletin said in a press release.
The Silay DRRMO team brought their emergency water filtration system to Barangay Kanlim-ao, Tabuelan, and other parts of northern Cebu for residents to avail of potable water, the press release also said.
The “Victorias for Cebu” solidarity relief mission, led by Bonie Boy Abacaro Bello of CDRRMO, distributed relief goods in Barangay San Jose, Borbon, and brought water to residents of Barangay Don Gregorio Antigua, Sitio Guyong Gamay, Bordon, in a campaign dubbed as “Tabang Ug Gugma”, it added.
Victorias Mayor Abelardo Bantug III, who led the sendoff of the team and three truckloads of relief goods and a water tanker Monday, thanked all “Victoriasanons for uniting as one community. I am very grateful to all those who joined and shared their time, energy, and life, for (the) solidarity relief mission”.
The Capitol also said that since Oct. 3, the One Negros Response Team has delivered a total of 167,100 liters of potable water, benefiting more than 30,000 individuals.
On Oct. 6, the water distribution included 30,000 liters from the San Carlos Tanker to Brgy. Siocon in Bogo; 20,000 liters from the PDRRMO Tanker 1 to Brgy. Marangog, also in Bogo; 14,000 liters from the Silay water filtration system and Toboso tanker to Brgy. Mabunao in Tabuelan; and 11,000 liters from the Victorias tanker to Brgy. San Jose in Borbon.
Victorias City also distributed 400 food packs and 400 pieces of five-liter bottled water to residents of Brgy. San Jose, Borbon, the Capitol said.
Almost a week after the earthquake, the DOST-Phivolcs Philippine Seismic Network (PSN) logged 8,339 aftershocks, 1,561 of these were plotted by at least three seismic stations, with magnitudes ranging from 1.0 to 5.1, the NDRRMC said yesterday.
It added that the 125-station PSN is augmented by temporary seismic stations installed near the epicentral area “to accurately detect the aftershocks”, with four stations installed by the DOST-Phivolcs Quick Response Team in the hard-hit municipalities of Tabogon, Tabuelan, Daanbantayan, and Santa Fe, in Cebu province.
The Cebu Capitol said that, as of an Oct. 5 incident report, 209,972 families, or 372,513 individuals, have been affected by the quake; 26,140 families, or 5,270 individuals, displaced; and 71 confirmed fatalities, three missing, and 592 injured, as validated by the DILG. | CGC
