BALANGA CITY, Bataan – The City Disaster Operations Center (CDOC) has recently conducted an earthquake and fire drill for ranking officials and employees of the Department of Education under the school’s division office here.
The exercise was held right in the division office composed of clusters of buildings in barangay Talisay, in this city.
School supervisors and other employees of the city schools division led by Supt. Jessie Ferrer joined the drill.
At the sound of a siren, they docked below their office tables. As the sirens stopped, they went out of their offices going to designated evacuation centers with their palms over their heads.
Rescue workers composed of DepEd employees rushed and attended to three “wounded victims” who were left behind their offices.
Some female rescue workers assisted firemen in putting out a “fire”.
Engr. Dennis Mariano, CDOC chief, said a series of earthquake and fire exercises will follow for all public elementary and high schools. This will also include public hospitals and other buildings in the city “to prepare students, teachers and the public how to react in cases of calamities like earthquakes and fires.”
He said that the exercises are in consonance with Presidential Executive Order No. 137 that Balanga City Mayor Jose Enrique Garcia III wants to be fully implemented.
The exercise was held right in the division office composed of clusters of buildings in barangay Talisay, in this city.
School supervisors and other employees of the city schools division led by Supt. Jessie Ferrer joined the drill.
At the sound of a siren, they docked below their office tables. As the sirens stopped, they went out of their offices going to designated evacuation centers with their palms over their heads.
Rescue workers composed of DepEd employees rushed and attended to three “wounded victims” who were left behind their offices.
Some female rescue workers assisted firemen in putting out a “fire”.
Engr. Dennis Mariano, CDOC chief, said a series of earthquake and fire exercises will follow for all public elementary and high schools. This will also include public hospitals and other buildings in the city “to prepare students, teachers and the public how to react in cases of calamities like earthquakes and fires.”
He said that the exercises are in consonance with Presidential Executive Order No. 137 that Balanga City Mayor Jose Enrique Garcia III wants to be fully implemented.
