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(Eagle News) — Eleven years after the 2009 Ondoy floods that killed almost 80 people in Marikina, deep floods once again submerged many parts of the city as heavy rains dumped by typhoon Ulysses (Vamco) caused Marikina River to swell and spill over to the streets transforming these into rivers. Waters were so high that people living in houses with more than two storeys had to go to the rooftop or to higher floors, […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte conducted an aerial inspection of areas hardest hit by typhoon Ulysses (international name Vamco), particularly focusing on the Marikina and Montalban areas which are experiencing severe floods similar to what happened in 2009 due to Tropical Storm Ondoy. Duterte made the inspection after addressing briefly the 37th ASEAN Summit where he had asked permission to be excused from participating in further meetings with ASEAN leaders as he had […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte conducted an aerial inspection of Catanduanes and Albay in the Bicol region which were severely hit by super typhoon Rolly (Goni) on Monday, Nov. 2, a day after the typhoon pummeled Bicol and other parts of Luzon. Duterte was accompanied by Sen. Christopher Bong Go. The President’s chopper also landed in Guinobatan. Albay where he met with some of the residents affected by the onslaught of the super typhoon. […]
(Eagle News) — In these photos by EBC Eagle News Service correspondent Rebert Soriao, concrete electric posts can be seen toppled by Super Typhoon Rolly’s intense winds on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020. Albay was under Tropical Cyclone Wind Signal No. 5 when it was hit by “Rolly” early Sunday with maximum sustained winds of over 225 kilometers per hour and gusts of up to 310 kph.
(Eagle News) — The Manila Bay Beach has social media buzzing as both locals and tourists have visited the white sand strip in the Philippine capital’s famous bay known for its dazzling sunsets. Locals and tourists flocked to the white sand beach of Manila Bay in its brief weekend public opening. It has since been the subject of vloggers as they raved about the new attraction in Manila. The Manila Bay beach area was closed […]
(Eagle News)–In these pictures shared by the Department of Transportation, passengers inside Metro Rail Transit-3 trains are seen sitting at a shorter distance between each other. From the original one-meter distance, the DOTr said it was now implementing a 0.75-meter distance between commuters in almost all public modes of transport, based on the approval of the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases. Only planes shall retain the original physical distancing protocol […]
by Javier TOVAR Agence France Presse Firefighters were battling unprecedented wildfires up and down the US West Coast on Friday that killed 15 people and forced more than half a million others to flee their homes, with officials warning of more deaths to come in the days ahead. The true scale of destruction was impossible to count across wide stretches of California, Oregon and Washington cut off from the world by an apocalyptic wall of […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Hundreds of homes have been lost to massive and unprecedented Oregon wildfires with a potentially historic number of fatalities feared in the northwestern US state, governor Kate Brown said Wednesday. More than 300,000 acres are burning across Oregon including 35 major wildfires, with at least five towns “substantially destroyed” and mass evacuations taking place. “This could be the greatest loss of human lives and property due to wildfire […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte visited on Sunday, Aug. 30 the blast site of the twin explosions in Jolo, Sulu that killed seven soldiers, one policeman and six civilians and wounded 75 others, offering flowers and condolences to the kin of those who died. The President also addressed the soldiers in Jolo in his “talk to troops” at the headquarters of the Joint Task Force Sulu, honoring those who died as well as […]
(Eagle News) — Two explosions rocked Jolo, Sulu today, Monday, Aug. 24, killing seven soldiers, six civilians, one policeman, and injuring scores of people near a grocery store and a computer shop along a busy street. The first explosion happened at 11:53 a.m while the second one was at around 1 p.m. Police initially reported at least six casualties — five soldiers and the sixth initially tagged as the female suicide bomber. Later, the number […]
by Jocelyne ZABLIT Agence France Presse LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Thousands of people fled their homes in northern California on Wednesday as hundreds of fast-moving wildfires spread across the region, burning houses and leading to the death of a helicopter pilot. In Vacaville — a city of about 100,000 people located between the state capital Sacramento and San Francisco — residents were urged to evacuate during the night as the wind-whipped flames […]
(Eagle News) — The following are photos from the Philippine Red Cross Masbate chapter showing how the magnitude 6.5 quake damaged the epicenter located in Cataingan, Masbate. The quake struck at 8:03 a.m. Tuesday, August 18, with a depth of only one kilometer, making it more damaging as it is more felt in the land surface. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said that aftershocks and damages are expected in the areas hit by […]
