{"id":34123,"date":"2014-12-06T16:23:58","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T08:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=34123"},"modified":"2014-12-06T16:23:58","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T08:23:58","slug":"traumatized-eastern-samar-residents-flee-for-safety-as-ruby-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/12\/06\/traumatized-eastern-samar-residents-flee-for-safety-as-ruby-nears\/","title":{"rendered":"Traumatized Eastern Samar residents flee for safety as \u2018Ruby\u2019 nears"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_34124\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34124\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Mar-Roxas-Ruby-Hagupit-Samar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34124\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Mar-Roxas-Ruby-Hagupit-Samar.jpg\" alt=\"The Secretary of the Interior and Local Government is in Borongan, Eastern Samar to help ensure that LGUs are prepared when #RubyPH makes landfall. Secretary Roxas also emphasized the President's instructions to evacuate residents in coastal areas. (Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines' Facebook page)\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Mar-Roxas-Ruby-Hagupit-Samar.jpg 625w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Mar-Roxas-Ruby-Hagupit-Samar-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34124\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Secretary of the Interior and Local Government is in Borongan, Eastern Samar to help ensure that LGUs are prepared when #RubyPH makes landfall. Secretary Roxas also emphasized the President&#8217;s instructions to evacuate residents in coastal areas. (Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines&#8217; Facebook page)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TACLOBAN CITY &#8212; Hernani town in Eastern Samar turned out to be a ghost town as families fled to higher grounds as early as Wednesday, the town police chief said.<\/p>\n<p>Sr. Insp. Dexter Astacaan said that at least 250 families from eight coastal villages took shelter in higher grounds after they were traumatized by storm surges whipped by super typhoon &#8220;Yolanda&#8221; (Haiyan) last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost people voluntarily evacuated since Wednesday morning for fear of fighting for their life again just like what happened last year,\u201d Astacaan said in a mobile phone interview.<\/p>\n<p>These families are from villages in the town center, Batang, Carmen, Garawon, and Nagaja.<\/p>\n<p>The local government has identified the upland villages of Canciledes, Padang, and San Isidro as safe ground for evacuation.<\/p>\n<p>Super typhoon Yolanda wiped out the entire town center of Hernani and killed 72 of its residents when it smashed central Philippine last year.<\/p>\n<p>Hernani is 60 kilometers south from the provincial capital of Borongan City, where typhoon Ruby is expected to make a landfall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TACLOBAN CITY &#8212; Hernani town in Eastern Samar turned out to be a ghost town as families fled to higher &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":34124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news-ph","mauthors-sarwell-q-meniano","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34123","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=34123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}