{"id":86032,"date":"2017-01-20T01:24:16","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T06:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=86032"},"modified":"2017-01-20T01:24:16","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T06:24:16","slug":"authorities-continue-to-evacuate-residents-of-2-towns-in-agusan-del-sur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/01\/20\/authorities-continue-to-evacuate-residents-of-2-towns-in-agusan-del-sur\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities continue to evacuate residents of 2 towns in Agusan Del Sur"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_86040\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86040\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Agusan_River.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-86040\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Agusan_River.jpg\" alt=\"Authorities continue to evacuate residents of 2 towns in Agusan Del Sur (Photo by Ronald Galope Barniso at English Wikipedia [GFDL (http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/copyleft\/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 4.0)\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Agusan_River.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Agusan_River-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Agusan_River-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86040\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Authorities continue to evacuate residents of 2 towns in Agusan Del Sur (Photo by<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AAgusan_River.jpg\"> Ronald Galope <\/a>Barniso at English Wikipedia [GFDL (http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/copyleft\/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 4.0)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"Normal1\" style=\"text-align: justify\">MANILA\u2014As of 6 a.m. Friday, military and police units are still conducting pre-emptive evacuation in La Paz and Loreto towns in Agusan Del Sur which are being threatened by flooding with the swelling of Agusan River due continuous rains since Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\" style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;Joint 26th Infantry Battalion and Agusan Del Sur Provincial Police Office are still conducting pre-emptive evacuation in Lapaz and Loreto areas,&#8221; Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) spokesperson Brig. Gen. Restituto Padilla.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\" style=\"text-align: justify\">Padilla said the move is more of a safety and precautionary measure as water levels in the nearby Agusan River has now dropped to 3.1 meters compared to the 3. 8 meters Thursday 7: 30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\" style=\"text-align: justify\">Padilla said military and other disaster response units in Agusan Del Norte and Agusan Del Sur are still on red alert status despite the calming of the weather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\" style=\"text-align: justify\">The 23rd Infantry Battalion&#8217;s disaster risk response operations unit is still on stand-by as of this posting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\" style=\"text-align: justify\">One male in Sibagat, Agusan Del Sur was reported missing, he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\" style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;Military units in the area are still monitoring the situation as of this time,&#8221; Padilla disclosed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014As of 6 a.m. Friday, military and police units are still conducting pre-emptive evacuation in La Paz and Loreto towns &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":86040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,95],"tags":[14006,14007,3244],"class_list":["post-86032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-agusan-del-sur","tag-agusan-river","tag-armed-forces-of-the-philippines","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86032","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}