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3rd Nationwide Simultaneous Earthquake
Drill Held
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thousand students of the Malabon National High School (MNHS) performed the
“Duck, Cover and Hold” procedure and vacated their school buildings to go to
their evacuation area during the earthquake drill simultaneously held nationwide
on 18 October 2007 at 9 in the morning. The demonstration drill at MNHS was
graced by national and local officials namely: Ernesto G. Carolina, Department
of National Defense Undersecretary for Philippine Defense Reform; Dr Anthony
Golez, Office of Civil Defense (OCD) Deputy Administrator; Dr Bartolome C.
Bautista, Deputy Director of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and
Seismology (PHIVOLCS) – Department of Science and Technology (DOST); Dr Teresita
G. Domalanta, Regional Director of the Department of Education (DepED) – NCR;
and Malabon City Vice Mayor Arnold Vicencio.
Once again, the National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) members
particularly PHIVOLCS-DOST, OCD, DepED, Philippine National Red Cross (PNRC) and
the Local Government Unit of Malabon City collaborated in the conduct of the
drill to educate both the students and teachers on what to do during and after
an earthquake. The Mass Casualty Incident (MCI) – Incident Command System (ICS)
simulation exercise further tested the school’s and other Rescue groups’ (e.g.
Malabon METRO, PNRC, Army Reserved Command – ARESCOM) response capabilities when
disaster strikes after a damaging quake.
PHOTOS
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