Residents who were evacuated from the danger zone around Mayon Volcano have again built a virtual “hut city” to escape harm from a potentially hazardous eruption, preferring to wait out the situation this way rather than stay at the evacuation centers.
“We heard a loud sound and when we realized it was an eruption, we scampered in different directions, not noticing that we just left our food at the table,” the housewife said, adding that evacuation was not yet enforced at that time. as the technical arm of the Albay Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.
In the four eruptions that Abayon, 45, and her family experienced, they also had to be evacuated four times from their village of Sta. Misericordia.“But if the local government told us to stay at schools, it would be OK, because we don’t have to spend money, it’s hard to earn,” she said. Emma Milarpes, 61, said she and her family chose to stay in the huts, rather than the crowded evacuation centers.
Living conditions at evacuation sites have somewhat improved nowadays. But another resident in Lidong, Salome Ayala, said her family of three could not all be relocated since she and her son took turns taking care of her paralyzed husband. Since Apsemo was created to establish a more organized system for evacuation, the office has developed a plan that identifies the roles of various provincial agencies in disaster response.
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