On Monday, San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora said that local government units (LGUs) in Metro Manila are ready to brace for the impact of Typhoon Betty (international name: Mawar) as they monitor over 400 identified low-lying areas across the region.
According to Zamora, local government executives have prepared pumping stations across the region and coordinated with the MMDA to monitor these stations, especially in low-lying areas.
Zamora also assured the public that all LGUs had prepared their rescue boats, vehicles, emergency equipment, and pumping stations. “The waterways are too small already. It cannot handle the water that goes through the drainages, meaning you need to upgrade the drainage system, or we have to use bigger culverts to accommodate the flow of the water and the trash that we often see in the waterways,” he explained.
For nationwide preparation, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council earlier said 1,679 teams from the Armed Forces of the Philippines, Philippine National Police, Bureau of Fire Protection, and Philippine Coast Guard are on standby for search, rescue, and retrieval operations.It added that the Office of the Civil Defense has a P256.2-million 2023 Quick Response Fund and the Department of Social Welfare and Development has P2.
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