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00:00 They are in charge of Pangasinan. Let's talk about the situation in Lalawigan from their vice governor, Mark Lambino. Good morning Vice Governor Lambino.
00:10 Good morning Igan and good morning to our listeners.
00:14 In your monitoring, how many places in Pangasinan are still flooded?
00:19 Well, for now, we have a total of more than 100 barangays affected by flooding, even though this has been changing for the past 24 to 36 hours due to the increase in water in the Sinokalan River.
00:35 And the same is true for the change in water in the high tide and low tide.
00:39 The most affected towns in the province of Pangasinan are the city of Daguban and its neighboring Kalasyao.
00:48 The Sinokalan River has been flooded for the past 72 hours.
00:52 More than 50 barangays are submerged in the river, as well as the neighboring town of Kalasyao, which is Santa Barbara.
01:01 In our province of Pangasinan, there are four towns and one city that declared a pacific calamity due to flooding.
01:11 That is the city of Daguban, the town of Kalasyao, the town of Santa Barbara and the town of Tarim that was also affected by flooding
01:19 due to the continuous rain runoff in the past five days in Lalawigan.
01:24 Has there been a casualty in Pangasinan?
01:28 As of now, the reports of our PDRM are injuries due to flooding, but no reported fatalities in the province.
01:39 What is the effect on agriculture and especially on fish in Pangasinan? How big is the problem?
01:45 God forbid, our fish industry is not affected. The damage is around 1.3 million.
01:54 But the most affected is agriculture, particularly corn, where the crop is in its sixth season.
02:03 The damage to corn will reach more than 40 million.
02:06 As for rice, we estimate that the number is around 21 to 22 million.
02:13 Fortunately, before planting rice, they are fond of water.
02:17 The rice is planted for four to six weeks. We are assessing if the damages are recoverable damages.
02:28 But based on the reports of our provincial agriculture office, the damages to corn are hard to catch.
02:35 Most likely, it's not viable for industrial use. It can be sold for livestock consumption. That's what they're looking at.
02:43 Vice Governor Lampino, we have a question with Ivan Mayrena. Ivan.
02:48 Good morning.
02:49 Good morning. Vice, as for infrastructure, are there any roads that are not being used until now?
02:56 As of now, most of our damages to infrastructure amounting to a little under P33 million are on farm to market roads that were hit by the runoff of continuous flooding.
03:09 The areas that are impassable are usually hit by floods due to high tide in the area of Lagunpag City.
03:17 But on national roads and provincial roads, nothing is impassable, especially in low tide.
03:24 This morning, the water level is low in the sea so it is passing through.
03:30 But when it reaches high tide, even if it's late afternoon, there are areas that are rising.
03:36 I just want to let you know that in the past 24 hours, the rain continues on the eastern side of Pangasin, where the Sinopalan River water starts.
03:46 We are monitoring if the water level will rise again here downstream, particularly in the cities of Santa Barbara, Calasio and Sinanon.
03:56 Aside from the cities that declared a state of calamity, nothing will be added in the next few days?
04:03 I'm sorry to say that I hope that there will be no more declarations.
04:07 But we are following the decisions of our local chief executives regarding the local damages in their areas.
04:17 The province-wide declaration is unlikely, Vice?
04:21 As of now, our assessment is that there is no need to declare a province-wide state of calamity because most of the damages that happened due to the earthquake
04:30 are isolated because of the rising water in some areas beside our rivers.
04:35 Generally...
04:37 Does the local government have any help for the affected, Vice?
04:43 Yes. As early as 72 hours before the earthquake, the provincial government has prepositioned
04:50 for any emergency response and augmentation responses that we need to give to our municipalities here in the province.
04:59 We also had some interventional responses in the barangays where the responses of our municipalities did not reach, that's why we had interventional responses.
05:10 When it comes to food crafts and assistance to our countrymen in evacuation centers,
05:17 like I said, our assistance for them is prepositioned for 72 hours.
05:22 And as long as the municipality and barangay need it, the provincial government is ready.
05:29 Vice, thank you for the update. Good morning to you.
05:33 Thank you. Good morning to you.
05:35 We will talk to Vice Governor Mark Lambino.
05:38 (In Tagalog)
05:58 (Music)