The Sorsogon-based 903rd Infantry Brigade will now help in
the transportation of evacuees back to their homes now that the threat posed by
typhoon "Ruby" is over.
This is aside from distribution of relief goods and
providing assessment on damages caused by "Ruby" on Sorsogon and Masbate .
About 57,901 families or 276,514 individuals were evacuated
in Sorsogon while 20,040 families or 102,396 individuals were taken to safer
ground in Masbate .
1st Lt. Clint Antipala, 903rd Infantry Brigade spokesperson,
said that they demonstrated their readiness to help the community in times of
disasters and calamities in Sorsogon and Masbate
during Ruby"'s onslaught.
"Through the 903rd Infantry Brigade’s task-organized
facility - the 903rd Disaster Response Task Group (903rd DRTG) under Major
Lazaro Quigao, which is charged with responding to disasters and calamities in
the Brigade AOR (area of responsibility), the Brigade had smoothly responded to
Typhoon 'Ruby' with the effective employment of the 903rd DRTG’s three disaster
response task units (DRTUs)," he added.
"The alertness of the 31st DRTU under Major Romeo
Jimenea in Sorsogon, the Task Group Masbate DRTU under Major Armand Benito in
Masbate and the 903rd DRTU under Capt. John Babia have resulted to zero death
casualty in the two provinces, with only seven slightly wounded residents of Masbate province. The proactive deployment of disaster
response teams (DRTs) under the DRTUs in disaster-prone areas was the key to
speedy response. These were made possible due to the effective management
undertaken by the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Councils
(PDRRMCs) of Sorsogon and Masbate ,"
Antipala stressed.
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