DSWD preps its command center, declares red alert due to TD #CrisingPH

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00:00Meanwhile, with Kuraseng threatening to batter communities, the command center is now fully operational.

00:05Teams on the ground, eyes on every update, and supplies ready to move.

00:09No time wasted, no corner left unmonitored. It's all systems go, as our Noel Talakay tells us more.

00:17These personnel of the Department of Social Welfare Development, or DSWD,

00:22are now preparing the Disaster Response Command Center as the agency also declared red alert

00:28following the declaration of the same alert status by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, or NDRRMC,

00:37due to the threat posed by Tropical Depression Kursing.

00:41Kasi hindi naman bagyo lang ang binabantayan natin. Mayat na may mga lindol, may mga pumuputok pang mga bulkan.

00:47Meron rin tayong maliliit na mga sakuna, katulad yung mga sunog.

00:50DSWD Secretary Rex Gatchalian takes the lead on the first day of monitoring.

00:55The command center will take all the reports coming from the agency's regional offices updates

01:00about the effects of Kursing in their respective areas,

01:04so that the agency will know where to send humanitarian assistance.

01:08Para ma-match namin yung pangangailangan ng isang evacuation center

01:12sa pinakamalapit na warehouse natin na may available na goods.

01:15I am here inside right now, the Disaster Response Command Center of the Department of Social Welfare and Development.

01:23As you can see behind me, their personnel are now hands on deck just to monitor the affected areas of Typhoon Kursing.

01:31According to DSWD, their operation will be 24-7 now.

01:36DSWD says that family food packs and non-food items are now pre-positioned in Region 1, Region 2,

01:44and the Correliera Administrative Region, ready to be deployed to local government units

01:50once assistance augmentations become necessary.

01:53By declaring red alert, also activates the DSWD's response cluster to monitor the situation on the field

02:01during and after the onslaught of tropical depression kursing in the country.

02:07Noel Talakay from the National TV Network for New and Better Philippines.

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