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Lapu-Lapu City DRRMO nakat-on sa ‘incident management’ atol sa earthquake drill

 

Ang mga personnel sa Lapu-lapu City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office mibuhat sa mga functional exercises atol sa gipahigayon nga 1st Quarter Nationwide Simultaneous Earthquake Drill (NSED) niadtong Marso 13 sa Lapu-Lapu City. (RGC/PIA7 Cebu)


CEBU CITY, Cebu (PIA) – Ang mga personnel sa Lapu-lapu City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office (DRRMO) nahatagan og higayon nga mapalambo ang ilang kapabilidad sa aspeto sa ‘incident management’ pinaagi sa gipahigayon nga 1st Quarter Nationwide Simultaneous Earthquake Drill (NSED) niadtong Marso 13 nga gipangulohan sa Lapu-Lapu DRRMO ug Office of Civil Defense (OCD) 7.

Sa maong aktibidad nga naga sentro sa mga ‘functional exercises’ gitudloan sila sa mga sistema ug proseso sa saktong pagdulama sa sitwasyon nga adunay mahitabong linog nga kinahanglan respondehan.

Gitan-aw usab ang kahimtang ug kaandam sa ilang mga pasilidad nga gamiton sa nahisgotang panghitabo.

Lakip na niini ang paghamtang sa ilang ‘Incident Command Post’ ug ‘Emergency Operations Center’ nga kinahanglan naka alerto kanunay nga moabag sa mga nagkinahanglan og tabang sa panahon sa katalagman.

Sa ilang nasinati nga pagbansay-bansay, ang kadagkuan sa Lapu-Lapu City DRRMO misaysay sa importansya sa maong ‘earthquake drill’ nga nihatag nila og oportunidad nga tan-awon kung asa kutog ang ilang abilidad ug mga kahimanan isip usa ka DRRM office.

“It is very important. Very essential in order to identify, identify, to find out what are the shortcomings. Through drills and functional exercises, we can identify what are our the shortcomings, what are the areas that need to be improved, as to our facility or our readiness, our ICS protocols, our EOC, our interoperability with other agencies. So, it was really important for us,” batbat ni Andy Berame, local DRRM officer IV, Lapu-Lapu City DRRMO.

Matod usab ni Berame nga andam ang ilang buhatan sa pagtubag sa mga gikinahanglan kung adunay mahitabong insidente sa linog, sigon pa niya ang nga ang ilang mga nakat-unan gikan sa maong aktibidad naghatag ug dakong tabang ug bentaha nga ma-aplay sa ilang mga personnel ngadto sa tinud-anay nga panghitabo.

“We can say that it is already there because our systems are already embedded. What we need to do is to react in the actual scenario, in a realistic scenario, so that our learnings and realizations can be transferred into actual performance,” si Berame midugang.

Isip maoy napili nga mo host sa 1st Quarter NSED karong tuiga, ang buhatan sa Lapu-Lapu DRRMO malaumon nga mabitbit sa ilang mga personnel nga mga pagtulon-an gikan sa gipahiyagon nga ‘earthquake drill’ ug kini mo resulta sa mas paspas ug epektibo nga pagbatang sa publiko ug pagtubang sa alarma sa higayon nga adunay mahitabong linog sa ilang dakbayan o bisan asang bahin sa rehiyon.

“Given the time element, and we just see there is a lot of information on how to react to the situation. So, we considered it as valuable training. Through this functional exercise, we were able to measure our resources and capabilities as disaster responders and test if we can actually transfer the knowledge and skills into real-life situations,” pagpahinapos sa opisyal sa Lapu-Lapu City DRRMO.

Sa eksaktong alas 3 sa hapon gisugdan ang maong aktibidad pinaagi sa pagpatingog sa sirene nga gipangulohan sa OCD ug mga member agencies sa Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (RDRRMC) 7.

Ang 1st Quarter NSED nahitabo didto sa DRRM office sa Lapu-lapu City, gitambungan usab sa ubang mga member agencies sa RDRRMC, nga maoy nag assess sa performance sa Lapu-lapu DRRMO sa gipahigayon nga NSED.

Matod usab sa OCD7, nga ang 2nd Quarter NSED ipahigayon didto sa Danao City og pangulohan sa Danao City local government karong buwan sa Hunyo. (RGC/PIA7 Cebu)

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