The Department of Interior and Local Government on tuesday ordered all local government units in disaster-prone areas to install alarm systems capable of producing’loud, wailing sounds’ to warn residents of an inbound disaster.
Interior Secretary Ronaldo Puno gave anxious local officers thirty days to install the alarm system. He in particular related that these alarm systems are compulsory in the following areas : those that are traversed by rivers ; those that served as catch-basins of nearby dams’ water reservoirs ; and flood or landslide-prone areas.
Puno announced these alarm systems should be still and loud enough to reach majority of the area’s residents.
‘It is necessary for us to take on and implement all possible emergency and safety measures to prevent devastations of the same magnitude in the future,’ Puno expounded, citing the recent disasters brought by tropical typhoon Ondoy and storm Pepeng.
pending the installation of permanent alarm systems, local state units should first have ready available portable alarm systems to warn residents during disasters, Puno said.
He also directed local government units to coordinate closely with the Philippine National Police and the Bureau of Fire Protection to aid in disaster relief operations.
