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LUCENA CITY – As Typhoon “Rolly” (international name: Goni) intensifies and draws closer to land, Quezon Governor Danilo Suárez has ordered all disaster management teams in the province to prepare.
In his Memorandum Order No. 135 issued on Saturday, Suárez instructed the Provincial Council for Disaster Risk Reduction Management (PDRRMC) and its counterparts in all local governments “to activate the respective Emergency Operations Center to monitor and combat the effects of Typhoon Rolly ”in their respective areas of responsibility.
The governor also led the activation of all “Incident Management Teams” for the effective management of the effects of typhoons in the province.
Suárez also ordered that all disaster management councils be present in the “virtual emergency operations center” starting at 1 pm to monitor in real time and carry out an efficient response to urgent situations.
Melchor Avenilla Jr., head of the PDRRMC, said that local governments are preparing preventive evacuations for residents living in areas prone to storm surge, landslides and flooding.
He said that no residents have been preemptively evacuated yet, “but the LGUs (local government units) and the people are prepared.”
On Friday, Suárez raised the alert status of the provincial disaster management operations center to red alert in anticipation of impending emergencies that would require an urgent response.
At 11 am, the state meteorological office raised Tropical Cyclone Wind Signal (TCWS) No. 2 over central and southern parts of Quezon, while the rest of the province did so under TCWS No. 1.
State meteorologists predict the center of the typhoon’s eye will pass very close to Catanduanes, the Calaguas Islands and very close to the mainland provinces of Camarines on Sunday morning, and over the Polillo Islands and the Quezon mainland on Sunday afternoon.
Early Sunday morning, “Rolly” will bring heavy and heavy rains over Metro Manila, the Bicol region, Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon), Central Luzon, Marinduque, and the northern portions of Occidental Mindoro and Oriental Mindoro, the state meteorological office said.
Meanwhile, in the town of Calapan in Oriental Mindoro, the disaster reduction and risk management office has pressed its sirens to warn people that typhoon signal number one has risen over the province.
Disaster response teams had been talking to coastal villages to request cooperation when an evacuation was needed.
Boat trips from the ports of Mindoro to the port of Batangas were canceled and at least 30 vehicles were stranded along the road in Barangay (town) Sta. Isabel.
The province was declared in a state of calamity after typhoon “Quinta” (international name: Molave) struck it earlier this week.
/ MUF
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