BACOLOD CITY – The Office of Civil Defense-Western Visayas vowed to strictly uphold the six-kilometer Permanent Danger Zone around Kanlaon Volcano.
RAUL Fernandez , regional director of the Office of Civil Defense -Western Visayas and chairman of the Regional Inter-Agency Coordinating Cell , speaks in a media briefing about
Approximately 4,000 evacuees living outside the PDZ in Bago City and La Castellana are expected to return home. “We are not arbitrarily imposing restrictions, we are simply acting to protect lives,” Fernandez said.
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