CAMP MELCHOR DELA CRUZ, GAMU, Isabela -- The
5th Infantry Division, Philippine Army’s Civil Military Operations (5ID-CMO)
battalion, has formed an emergency response company to respond to emergencies
in times of calamities.
The emergency response company will be a permanent rescue
unit of Camp Melchor
Sergeant Edwin Fernandez, an enlisted personnel of 5ID’s
CMO, said the emergency rescue company is composed of two units with 57 Army
soldiers.
Fernandez said soldiers who are assigned at the CMO’s
emergency response company are now undergoing intensive training on rescue
operations particularly on application of first aid and basic life support.
The selected soldiers are being trained by the camp’s
medical officers and nurses inside the Camp Melchor Station hospital.
The emergency response company is headed by Army Captain
Ferdinand Gabriel.
The 5ID has provided complete modern rescue equipment and
accessories like life vests, ring floater, rubber boats, chain saws, axes, bolt
cutters, rescue ropes, rescue helmets and other rescue accessories to
effectively carry out their rescue, retrieval and evacuation operations.
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