Wednesday, June 15, 2016

EMC holds 3-day HADR planning exercise

From the Philippine News Agency (Jun 15): EMC holds 3-day HADR planning exercise

Units of the Eastern Mindanao Command (EMC) conducted a three-day humanitarian assistance and disaster response (HADR) planning exercise at its Naval Station Felix Apolinario headquarters in Panacan, Davao City last June 13 to 15.

Major Ezra Balagtey, EMC public affairs office chief, said planners and disaster management implementers from the Command attended the three-day planning session.

He added EMC head Lt. Gen. Leonardo B. Guerrero ordered this HADR planning session.

The goal is to alert all units under its control and review their respective disaster plans as part of the preparation with the onset of the rainy season.

Aside from reviewing existing plans, the activity also aimed to update different planners and disaster response implementers on the basics of Incident Management in accordance to the standards of Incident Command System.

Being the lead agency in Search Rescue and Retrieval, which falls under the thematic Area Disaster Response, the exercise also allows EMC to inventory and identify different search and rescue organizations in its area-of-responsibility.

The exercise also includes inter-operability and inter-connectivity review with different stakeholders and organizations, being one of the lessons learned during past disasters.

http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=1&sid=&nid=1&rid=895314

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