{"id":89044,"date":"2017-02-11T23:21:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T04:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=89044"},"modified":"2017-02-11T23:21:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T04:21:38","slug":"dotr-conducts-assessment-on-quake-damages-to-surigao-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/11\/dotr-conducts-assessment-on-quake-damages-to-surigao-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"DOTr conducts assessment on quake damages to Surigao airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013Department of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Arthur Tugade led the assessment of the Surigao airport which was temporarily caused due to the extensive damage on its runway following a magnitude 6.7 quake that struck the city Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Tugade, together with airport officials, arrived in Surigao Saturday afternoon hours after the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) issued a notice to airmen (NOTAM) closing the airport for repair and rehabilitation.<\/p>\n<p>DOTr stated that the tower, airport terminal and facilities incurred minimal damages and no staff was injured.<\/p>\n<p>The CAAP sent engineers to the airport to conduct its detailed assessment and fast track the repairs.<\/p>\n<p>Local airlines such as PAL, PAL Express, and Cebu Pacific Express have expressed all-out support to government relief operation in Surigao.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) has also dispatched a search and rescue vessel from Cebu to deliver clean drinking water to affected areas in Surigao.<\/p>\n<p>The vessel may also be used for disaster relief operations. Around 150 PCG personnel are also being mobilized to augment government operations in Surigao.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013Department of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Arthur Tugade led the assessment of the Surigao airport which was temporarily caused due &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":65578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[12066,417,15021],"class_list":["post-89044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-dotr","tag-earthquake","tag-surigao","mauthors-aerol-john-b-patena","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89044","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=89044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}