LEGAZPI CITY, Albay, Philippines — A total of 105 families composed of 340 persons in Garchitorena town in Camarines Sur were evacuated to safer ground on Saturday in anticipation of possible flooding and landslides due to moderate to heavy rains brought by Typhoon Bising (internationally known as Surigae) as it neared Bicol.
Camarines Sur Gov. Miguel Luis “Migz” Villafuerte issued the order earlier to local disaster councils in the province to start preemptive evacuation in areas vulnerable to flooding and landslides, according to Gremil Alexis Naz, spokesperson of the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) in Bicol.
Also on Saturday, the OCD declared a red alert status in Bicol after th…
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