Officials from the Executive Department on Thursday participated in an executive training on incident command system at Arcadia Hotel.
Davao City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office (CDRRMO) Head Alfredo Baloran, during the event, said that the activity incident command system is important – not only in managing but also coordination and the use of resources during incidents and planned events.
“This executive course, this is compressed among the five courses of ICS, which include important features and highlights in managing and coordination on how we are going to handle emergencies,” Baloran said.
Office of the Civil Defense Region XI Director Ednar Dayanghirang, in his speech during the training, said that what the agency and the city government do about disaster resilience is under RA10121 or the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010 (DRRM Act).
“The dream of that law is disaster resilience and resilience should reside to all people,” Dayanghirang said.
He said that in terms of aspiring resilience, everybody, including the participants should be thinking about the whole population of Davao.
“At the end of the day if there is a disaster, ang katawhan maigo (it is the people who would suffer),” he said, adding that families may be displaced in times of disaster, Dayanghirang said.
He highlighted that every family must understand the risk of their surroundings so that in time of disasters they will know where to go.
Meanwhile, Davao City Mayor’s Office, Assistant Chief of Staff Atty. Jonah Margarette F. Presto, who participated in the training, said that it was very helpful to those who belong to the Executive Department.
“It is good to know nga naa ta’y proper and formal training for things like this labi pa nga ang Davao City is prone to all kinds of incidents (It is good to know that we have proper and formal training like this, especially that Davao City is prone to all kinds of incidents),” Presto said. CIO