{"id":89370,"date":"2017-02-13T22:07:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T03:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=89370"},"modified":"2017-02-13T22:07:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T03:07:04","slug":"planes-helis-naval-craft-help-in-surigao-city-quake-relief-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/13\/planes-helis-naval-craft-help-in-surigao-city-quake-relief-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Planes, helis, naval craft help in Surigao City quake relief efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_89372\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89372\" style=\"width: 852px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16684155_1622858644410457_8963110681568733666_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89372\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16684155_1622858644410457_8963110681568733666_n.jpg\" alt=\"Damaged houses were placed at 1,034, with 155 severely damaged by the earthquake. (Photo: Presidential Communications (Government of the Philippines)\/ Facebook)\" width=\"852\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16684155_1622858644410457_8963110681568733666_n.jpg 852w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16684155_1622858644410457_8963110681568733666_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16684155_1622858644410457_8963110681568733666_n-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 852px) 100vw, 852px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-89372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Damaged houses were placed at 1,034, with 155 severely damaged by the earthquake. (Photo:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/presidentialcom\"> Presidential Communications (Government of the Philippines)\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013Assorted aircraft, helicopters and naval craft of the military are now helping in the ongoing humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR) efforts in quake-ravaged Surigao City.<\/p>\n<p>These include three to four gunboats assigned to Naval Forces Eastern Mindanao (NFEM), Philippine Navy (PN) spokesperson Capt. Lued Lincuna said in a message to the PNA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As of now (these) gunboats are now working with the Office of Civil Defense and Provincial Risk Response and Management Council about their respective deployment,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The PN is always ready to perform HADR operations to help and alleviate the condition of the victims brought by the magnitude 6.7 earthquake that hit Surigao (City),&#8221; Lincuna pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Philippine Air Force (PAF) assets deployed for the Surigao City quake relief efforts include all available Lockheed C-130 cargo planes of the 220th Airlift Wing, of which there five, six W-3A &#8220;Sokol&#8221; rescue helicopters and assorted UH-IH &#8220;Huey&#8221; combat utility helicopters in the CARAGA region.<\/p>\n<p>PAF spokesperson Col. Antonio Francisco said these air assets are helping in the transport of relief and medical goods in Surigao City and other quake-ravaged areas.<\/p>\n<p>As of this posting, the tremor which struck Surigao City 10:03 p.m. Friday has so far killed eight people and wounded 202 others, aside from causing infrastructure damage initially placed at PHP108. 45 million.<\/p>\n<p>Damaged houses were placed at 1,034, with 155 severely damaged by the earthquake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013Assorted aircraft, helicopters and naval craft of the military are now helping in the ongoing humanitarian assistance and disaster &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":89372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[417,15067,15021],"class_list":["post-89370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-earthquake","tag-relief-goods","tag-surigao","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89370","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=89370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}