WITH the looming threat of a possible super typhoon, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) has raised its alert status from “blue” to “red.”
This is aimed to have an immediate emergency response team with “Nando” has intensified into a typhoon while still over the Philippine Sea. It is expected to further strengthen as it approaches the country.
The NDRRMC said it issued Memorandum 245, categorizing the emergency condition under “red alert.”
Red alert is the highest status of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Operations Center (NDRRMOC), activated to address an ongoing or imminent emergency.
It provides full staffing of response agencies as well as immediate interagency coordination.
Under a red alert, the duty officers from the Armed Forces of the Philippines, Bureau of Fire Protection, Philippine Coast Guard, and Philippine National Police, as well as technical staff of relevant agencies, including the Department of Health (DOH), are required to render duty at the NDRRMOC.
State weather bureau PAGASA said that as of 10 a.m. Saturday, Typhoon Nando was located 775 km. east of Casiguran, Aurora, packing maximum sustained winds of 120 kph near the center and gustiness of up to 150 kph, and moving west-northwestward at 10 kph.
