NDRRMC activates response protocols as Betty onset looms

The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) has activated its emergency preparedness and response (EPR) protocols in preparation for Typhoon Betty’s onslaught.

Civil Defense Administrator and NDRRMC Executive Director Ariel Nepomuceno mentioned that the council is coordinating with varied businesses to make sure that all vital measures are in place from the nationwide right down to the native stage.

“We have already identified and activated appropriate emergency preparedness and response protocols in different regions to be affected by the weather disturbance,” he mentioned in an announcement.

The EPR protocols are units of actions that should be undertaken by involved authorities businesses and native authorities models earlier than the onslaught of the storm and through response operations.

A complete of 1,679 groups from the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), Philippine National Police (PNP), Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), and Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) are on standby for attainable search, rescue, and retrieval operations, based on the NDRRMC.

As of 11 a.m., PAGASA mentioned the next areas in Luzon have remained underneath Tropical Cyclone Wind Signal (TCWS) No. 1 whilst Betty decelerated whereas transferring westward over the Philippine Sea:

• Batanes;
• Cagayan together with Babuyan Islands;
• Isabel;
• Apayao;
• Ilocos Norte;
• the northern and central parts of Abra (Tineg, Lacub, Lagayan, San Juan, Lagangilang, Licuan-Baay, Malibcong, Danglas, La Paz, Dolores, Tayum, Bucay, Sallapadan, Daguioman, Bucloc, Boliney);
• Kalinga;
• the japanese and central parts of Mountain Province (Sadanga, Barlig, Natonin, Paracelis, Bontoc);
• the japanese and central parts of Ifugao (Mayoyao, Aguinaldo, Alfonso Lista, Banaue, Hingyon, Lagawe, Lamut, Kiangan, Asipulo);
• the northern and central parts of Aurora (Dilasag, Casiguran, Dinalungan, Dipaculao);
• Quirino; and
• northeastern portion of Nueva Vizcaya (Kasibu, Quezon, Solano, Bagabag, Diadi, Villaverde, Bayombong, Ambaguio).

—LBG, GMA Integrated News