San Jose dB, Tibiao holds first joint SAR exercise

(Top left) Tibiao Municipal DRRM Officer Ritche Jermia with San Jose de Buenavista counterpart Engr. Alex Crespo. (Right) Rapel down Bugtong Bato Falls in Tibiao, (Bottom left) Mixed Tibao-San Jose de Buenavista rescue group securing the victim in the basket stretcher for transpo down Bugtong Bato Falls.

San Jose de Buenavista and Tibiao held the first inter-municipality search and rescue exercise in the Province of Antique.

The Tibiao Rescue Team held a refresher drill and simulation on high angle and wilderness rescue and invited San Jose de Buenavista for a joint exercise.

San Jose de Buenavista personnel trained high angle rescue  shared their knowledge and skills to those of Tibiao.

Thru this joint exercise, friendship and camaraderie among the operatives in the emergency service was fostered.

It was also an opportunity to build network, strengthen partnership and share of resources among organization.

Tibiao recently launched the Tibiao Eco-Adventure (TEA Park) which offers activities that could help enhance emergency response skills while San Jose de Buenavista was recently awarded the Best Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council in the Philippines for 1st-3rd class Municipality.

San Jose MLGU prepares relief packs for Gener's victims

Photo by Donna T. Panaguiton

The municipal government of San Jose de Buenavista prepared relief packs for victims of enhanced southwest monsoon associated with Typhoon Gener (Soala).

350kgs of rice, 800 cans of sardines and 228 packs of noodles were repacked into relief packs good for a family of six .

This is to augment relief goods provided by affected barangays to their constituents in the evacuation centers.


On a meeting last August 1 with some of the affected barangays, a relief operation policy of prioritizing those inside the evacuation center and those with houses totally damaged were agreed upon.



The LGU already coordinated with the regional DSWD  and accessed additional relief goods.


DAMAGE STATISTICS

As of 3:00 P.M. of August, a total of 316 families from barangays of (1)Atabay, (2)Badiang,
(3)Bariri, (4)Brgy. 5, (5)Brgy. 8, (6)Bugarot, (7)Durog, (8)Inabasan, (9)Igbonglo, (10)Magcalon, (11)Malaiba, (12)Maybato Sur, (13)Maybato North, (14)Mojon, (15)San Fernando and (16)Supa were affected.

Three individuals were injured.

An estimated P4 Million worth of properties and agricultural products were damaged.

Igbonglo was damaged the most where 20 hectares of flowering rice were damaged. Agriculture assessment however indicated that damaged rice crops have chance of recovery.

Damage to fisheries sector has yet to be determined.