OCD Western Visayas Director Raul Fernandez
BACOLOD CITY, NEGROS OCCIDENTAL, Philippines — La Castellana city in Negros Occidental, which is anticipated to be the toughest hit by a significant eruption of Mt. Kanlaon, nonetheless has no last and permitted contingency plan, the Workplace of Civil Protection (OCD) mentioned.
OCD Western Visayas Director Raul Fernandez mentioned La Castellana doesn’t have a last plan on the place 1000’s of its residents needs to be evacuated if the volcano erupts once more and is positioned beneath alert stage 4.
“It’s worrisome if (a contingency plan for an evacuation) shouldn’t be acted on quickly,” he mentioned in a Feb. 19 interview.
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Fernandez, who can also be Process Pressure Kanlaon head, mentioned La Castellana Mayor Rhummyla Nicor Mangilimutan has proposed to deliver affected residents to 2 barangays in her city however “the websites to be recognized by the mayor haven’t any amenities for the evacuees but.”
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‘Double dealing with’
Fernandez mentioned they might need to keep away from “double dealing with” whereby evacuees must be transferred twice.
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The OCD is making ready evacuation websites within the cities of Himamaylan and Kabankalan to accommodate evacuees from La Castellana if wanted.
Fernandez mentioned La Castellana is the lone affected space that has but to signal a memorandum of understanding with different native governments to simply accept its evacuees beneath a worst-case situation.
Underneath a worst-case situation, about 100,000 residents on Negros Island, together with these in La Castellana, should be evacuated, Fernandez mentioned.
“Whether or not they (La Castellana) prefer it or not, there will likely be a spillover of displaced residents,” he careworn.
In a number of evacuation facilities in Negros Occidental and Negros Oriental, at the very least 10,000 residents from Kanlaon’s 6-kilometer hazard zone have been sheltered because the volcano erupted on Dec. 9 final yr.
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The OCD has been making ready for 1000’s extra evacuees because the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology has warned Mt. Kanlaon may have one other and extra violent eruption.
