{"id":34101,"date":"2014-12-06T14:44:18","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T06:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=34101"},"modified":"2014-12-06T14:44:18","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T06:44:18","slug":"philippine-army-special-operations-command-ready-for-typhoon-ruby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/12\/06\/philippine-army-special-operations-command-ready-for-typhoon-ruby\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippine Army, Special Operations Command ready for typhoon &#8216;Ruby&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_34098\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34098\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ruby-hagupit-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34098\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ruby-hagupit-2.jpg\" alt=\"Image from DOST PAGASA\" width=\"960\" height=\"709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ruby-hagupit-2.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ruby-hagupit-2-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ruby-hagupit-2-900x664.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34098\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image from DOST PAGASA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The headquarters of the Philippine Army and the Special Operations Command has activated its &#8220;Sulong Bayanihan&#8221; contingency plan for possible disaster relief and humanitarian missions that may be needed once Typhoon &#8220;Ruby&#8221; makes landfall Sunday morning in Samar.<\/p>\n<p>This includes placing the 525th Engineer Construction Battalion and the entire 51st Engineer Brigade on stand-by, 7th Civil Relations Group commander Major Emmanuel Garcia said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>He added that various disaster response task units (DRTUs) are now ready for deployment.<\/p>\n<p>This is aside from one battalion dedicated to relief and rescue work, Garcia disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Also organized were forward support teams for petroleum, oil, and lubricants (POL), meals-ready-to-eat (MREs),water, mobility assets and other logistics.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia said that communication vans and manpack public address systems are also being readied.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that Special Operations Command is also prepared to paradrop troops and supplies in isolated areas that may be severely affected by typhoon &#8220;Ruby.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The headquarters of the Philippine Army and the Special Operations Command has activated its &#8220;Sulong Bayanihan&#8221; contingency plan &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":34098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","mauthors-priam-f-nepomuceno","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}