The order to evacuate was issued on Thursday but the full scale—and hardship—of the exodus was only starting to reveal itself on Friday in Calbayog, one of the villages within the radius of Mayon’s 6-kilometer permanent danger zone.
When the Inquirer spoke to her on Friday, Buaze was preparing to leave home together with her two siblings and their two children.
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology has raised the alert status in these areas to level 3, citing signs of a “hazardous eruption’’ happening within weeks or even days. The Albay provincial government said about 4,749 families, or 18,184 people in 14 villages within the danger zone, need to seek safer ground. It declared a state of calamity on Friday to authorize the use of some P30 million in calamity funds.AWAY FROM DANGER ZONE Evacuees are hauled off to shelters from a village in Giunobatan town, Albay, on Friday, a day after Phivolcs raised the Mayon Volcano alert status to level 3.
“There is always that possibility’’ like what happened in 2018, Bacolcol said at the Laging Handa briefing.
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