CLARK FREEPORT — Pampanga police chief Col. Jean Fajardo said yesterday that rescuers equipped with equipment and trained rescue dogs have observed “no proof of life” anymore as of last Wednesday in the debris of the collapsed Chuzon Supermarket in Porac town.
In an interview with media, Fajardo said rescue operations would continue, as she cited instances in similar disasters in the past wherein victims were rescued alive even five days after being trapped.
She said rescue and retrieval operations at the site would take about three days more, even as heavy equipment from the Department of Public Works and Highways started to clear heavy concrete and other debris from the four-storey building which collapsed during the earthquake last Monday.
At the same time, the Department of Social Welfare and Development has continued to provide food packs and other needs to 55 families whose houses were damaged by last Monday’s earthquake.
Provincial social welfare officer Elizabeth Baybayin said the families have constructed shelter under bamboo clusters in Barangay Babo Pangulo, after their houses in Barangay Diaz were heavily damaged by the quake.
