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Significant rains due to shear line caused flooding in Capiz and Aklan, affecting 15,464 families or 49,129 individuals in the two provinces, according to a report released by the Office of the Civil Defense Western Visayas (OCD 6) on Tuesday.
The Department of the Interior and Local Government Secretary Benhur Abalos, Jr. has called on diving professionals to join the rescue operations for the missing Aeta leader who disappeared Wednesday night after his boat collided with a hotel speed boat in Boracay Island.
SHELTER AID. Representatives of the Province of Negros Occidental led by Zeaphard Caelian, head of the Provincial Disaster Management Program Division, receive the donated lumber from Iloilo Province during the turn-over rites held at the Panaad Park and Stadium in Bacolod City on Friday (May 13, 2022). The assistance was facilitated by the Office of Civil Defense in partnership with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Western Visayas.(Photo courtesy of Office of Civil Defense-Western Visayas) BACOLOD CITY - The Negros Occidental provincial government received on Friday some 42,400 board feet of lumber from the Office of Civil Defense-Western Visayas (OCD-6) that will be used for the shelter needs of Negrenses affected by Typhoon Odette. The lumber came from felled mahogany and gmelina trees at the national government's dam project site in Calinog, Iloilo. Cindy Ferrer, information officer of OCD-6, said they facilitated such kind of assistance for the first time
AUGMENTATION. The Negros Occidental Electric Cooperative (NOCECO), with its main office in Kabankalan City, receives augmentation personnel from the Central Negros Electric Cooperative (CENECO) based in Bacolod City on Jan. 24, 2022. The team has been deployed to La Castellana town to assist their southern Negros counterparts in the continuing power restoration activities after the onslaught of Typhoon Odette in December.(Photo courtesy of Negros Occidental Electric Cooperative) BACOLOD CITY - Power supply has been restored in 68.93 percent of households affected by the onslaught of Typhoon Odette in southern Negros Occidental last December, a situation update released by the Office of Civil Defense-Western Visayas (OCD-6) on Thursday showed. The data is based on the power restoration report submitted by the Negros Occidental Electric Cooperative (NOCECO) as of January 24, which includes 17 cities and municipalities under its coverage area. Of the 180,921 households with active connect