SunStar Firefighters, CDRMMO hold joint firefighting ‘simulation’ in Mandaue
SIMULATION. Mandaue City Mayor Jonas Cortes (foreground) speaks to personnel of the Mandaue City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office and the Mandaue City Fire Department before they conduct a simulation on firefighting in Barangay Guizo. (Mandaue City Public Information Office)
+ March 13, 2021 TWO emergency response offices in Mandaue City conducted a firefighting simulation on Saturday, March 13, 2021, to help prepare their personnel for real-life incidents.
Personnel of the Mandaue City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office and the Mandaue City Fire Station held the simulation near two big commercial establishments in Barangay Guizo.
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SunStar February 18, 2021 THE state weather bureau’s station in Mactan, Cebu has advised the public, including the people living in prone areas, to prepare for Tropical Storm Auring, which is expected to bring 50 to 100 millimeters of rainfall in Cebu and other parts of Visayas over the weekend.
Flooding is expected as every one millimeter (mm) of rain is equivalent to 5,000 drums or barrels of rain per square kilometer.
The disaster management offices of Mandaue City, Medellin town and Cebu Province have started to prepare for the impact of Auring.
Jhomer Eclarino, weather specialist at the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) Mactan, said Auring was expected to intensify into a severe tropical storm before it makes its first landfall in Caraga by Saturday evening, Feb. 20, 2021 or Sunday morning, Feb. 21.
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+ February 01, 2021 THE Mandaue City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office (CDRRMO) reinstalled its early warning systems (EWS) in seven locations near the riverbanks in Mandaue City.
The CDRRMO officials also inspected its EWS at the 6.5-hectare relocation site in Brgy. Paknaan, bridges near Innodata and City Scapes in Brgy. Subangdaku on Jan. 30, 2021.
The other four locations, in Butuanon River, Sitio Guba in Brgy. Casuntingan, MobelHaus in Banilad and Cambogaong bridge, will have another schedule for inspection.
Buddy Allain Ybañez, the head of the CDRRMO, told SunStar Cebu that the EWS were installed years ago but these were disconnected after the Mandaue City Command Center was renovated in March 2020.