CITY OF MALOLOS—Bulacan Gov. Daniel Fernando and Vice Gov. Alexis Castro distribute daily the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) food packs to flooded residents in different towns and cities due to heavy downpour brought by recent typhoon Crising and current Tropical Cyclones Dante and Emong and high level of sea water (high tide).
Reports from the Bulacan Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office (PDRRMO) said the province 22 towns and cities—Angat, Bulakan, City of Baliwag, Balagtas, Bustos, Dona Remedios Trinidad (DRT), Calumpit, Hagonoy, Pandi, Obando, Paombong, City of Malolos, Plaridel, Pulilan, San Miguel, Norzagaray, Marilao, Guiguinto, Bocaue, Sta. Maria, City of Meycauayan and City of San Jose del Monte have 20,347 individuals from 6,324 families who remained in at least 206 evacuation centers in their respective areas.
Only the towns of San Rafael and San Ildefonso have no record of current evacuees.
PDRRMO chief Manuel Lukban Jr. said the evacuees in the said two towns could either been sent home already or that there was no evacuees at all.
Fernando and Castro had started distributing food packs on Saturday at the height of typhoon Crising.
Evacuees in Bocaue, Balagtas, Marilao, City of Malolos, Bulakan and other towns and cities already received the packs of goods.
Rowena Joson-Tiongson said each box of the DSWD food packs contain six kilos of rice, assorted canned goods (sardines, corned beef and tuna flakes) and instant coffee or cereal drink sachets.
