Residents who evacuated in the towns of Sto. Domingo and Guinobatan in Albay have refused to return to their houses despite being told by their town officials. | MaAprilMierINQ /PDI
Milarpes, her children and mother left Zone 3 of Barangay Lidong on June 12 out of fear that pyroclastic materials and ashfall would reach their area even if it was already outside of the PDZ.
Some of the town’s residents built nipa huts in the villages of Salvacion, Calayucay and San Andres to avoid the crowded evacuation centers in schools. About 1,688 families in Sto. Domingo and 377 families in Guinobatan were evacuated from the 7-km to 8-km extended danger zone, comprising about 44 percent of the total evacuees.Joy Maravillas, head of the Guinobatan municipal disaster risk reduction and management office, said by phone on Tuesday that village officials in Maninila, Tandarora and Muladbucad Grande would not allow the evacuated 377 families to return home as they were living close to two big gullies of the volcano.
“For 11 days now, I experienced sleepless nights [because] the children were noisy, and worst of all, it is very hot, so it would be best to go home,” Sergia Otilla, 84, a resident of Maninila village, said in an interview Tuesday.
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