DTI Usecs. Teodoro Pascua (Consumer Protection Grp.) and
Zenaida Maglaya (Regional Opn’s Grp.) called an urgent
meeting to discuss the ill-effects of an earthquake the
magnitude of which Metro Manila may find itself in a
dilemma for months-to-come if not properly prepared
and handled. Meeting was held on 23 November 2017
at the Office of Usec. Pascua at 2/F UPRC Bldg. along
Gil Puyat Ave. Office of the Civil Defense (OCD) together
with the Presidential Management Staff (PMS) convened
the Inter-Agency Resiliency Team. DTI is a member of the
TWG on Food. PAGASA suggested that learning from
past lessons: 1.) The military (not the PNP) must secure
all food retail establishments to maintain order when the
Big One strikes (and avoid looting); 2.) Road Plans have to
be revealed, same with the 4 quadrants of MMDA and
evacuation areas of these 4 areas to avoid over-congestion
in one area and for the public to be traveling in the areas
which are decongested; 3.) to continuously decongest
MM as food will only last for a few days if everyone stays
within this metropolis (since the number of people in the
day time is very much different from that in the night time
as workers travel back to residences in the adjacent
provinces in Calabarzon and Central Luzon areas; and
4.) to inform the public before-hand which radio stations
to listen to (with battery-operated radios) since commu-
nication systems may be down when cell towers,phone
and electric lines are down.
DTI Usecs. Teodoro Pascua (Consumer Protection Grp.) and
Zenaida Maglaya (Regional Opn’s Grp.) called an urgent
meeting to discuss the ill-effects of an earthquake the
magnitude of which Metro Manila may find itself in a
dilemma for months-to-come if not properly prepared
and handled. Meeting was held on 23 November 2017
at the Office of Usec. Pascua at 2/F UPRC Bldg. along
Gil Puyat Ave. Office of the Civil Defense (OCD) together
with the Presidential Management Staff (PMS) convened
the Inter-Agency Resiliency Team. DTI is a member of the
TWG on Food. PAGASA suggested that learning from
past lessons: 1.) The military (not the PNP) must secure
all food retail establishments to maintain order when the
Big One strikes (and avoid looting); 2.) Road Plans have to
be revealed, same with the 4 quadrants of MMDA and
evacuation areas of these 4 areas to avoid over-congestion
in one area and for the public to be traveling in the areas
which are decongested; 3.) to continuously decongest
MM as food will only last for a few days if everyone stays
within this metropolis (since the number of people in the
day time is very much different from that in the night time
as workers travel back to residences in the adjacent
provinces in Calabarzon and Central Luzon areas; and
4.) to inform the public before-hand which radio stations
to listen to (with battery-operated radios) since commu-
nication systems may be down when cell towers,phone
and electric lines are down.
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