BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/17 February) – Some 2,500 families in the lakeside town of Jabonga, Agusan del Norte were displaced by floods brought by a low pressure area that hit parts of Mindanao last Wednesday. A state of calamity was immediately declared in the town following an almost nonstop rainfall which started last February 13, Monday. [...]

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/17 December) — A Christmas miracle happened in the high seas of Macajalar Bay Saturday as 275 men, women and children swept to sea by the mammoth floods unleashed by tropical storm Sendong were rescued by fisherfolk, a ship’s crew and Air Force personnel. The daring rescue  from the clutches of [...]

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/17 December) –  The death toll in Saturday’s flash floods in the cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan had, as of 7 p.m., risen to 327, most of them children. At least 260 persons remain missing in the worst flooding in Mindanao in the last 25 years. In Cagayan de [...]

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/17 December) –  Tropical storm Sendong brought 180 mm of rainfall in less than 24 hours starting late Friday afternoon, flooding 23 of this city’s 80 barangays by early Saturday morning, weather specialist Mario Guya of the Philippine Astronomical and Geophysical Services Administration (PAGASA) said. Guya said Sendong brought rains with [...]

MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/17 December) —  Six bridges were destroyed in two towns in northern Bukidnon leaving the town of Baungon, in the province’s border with Cagayan de Oro City, “totally isolated,” Bukidnon Governor Alex Calingasan said Saturday morning. Calingasan told MindaNews by telephone that no one can get in and out of Baungon town because [...]

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/20 Jan) – A government geologist on Thursday warned residents living in upland areas of Region 12 or Southwestern Mindanao to brace for the possible occurrence of landslides in the wake of the sporadic heavy rains in the area. Engr. Jaime Flores, chief geologist of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources’ [...]

DARONG, Sta. Cruz (MindaNews/18 January) – Three persons were killed and three remain missing while at least a hundred huts were swept away by flash floods that struck early Monday evening, barangay officials said. Barangay councilor Eman Sinacan told MindaNews the floods caused a heavy traffic jam along an eight-kilometer stretch since Monday evening, leaving thousands of passengers stranded.

MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/06 January) – Caraga Region in Northeastern Mindanao got the highest number of people affected by floods spawned by heavy rains since last week, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said in a report released 12 noon today. The NDRRMC report said 68,101 families or 352,942 persons have been displaced [...]

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/06 January) – Floods and landslides caused by torrential rains might have extended de facto the ceasefire between the government and the National Democratic Front as both government soldiers and New People’s Army guerrillas had claimed to have mobilized their units for disaster relief operations. Benito Ramos himself, the executive director [...]

BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/06 January) –   Seventeen of the 25 persons nationwide who died from drowning or landslides brought about by flash floods spawned by heavy rains since Sunday were from Mindanao, the National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council reported in its 6 a.m. January 6 update. A total of 467,916 persons in 586 barangays were [...]

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/04 January)  – A six-year old girl in Baroy, Lanao del Norte and a 58-year old woman in Monkayo, Compostela Valley were reported dead as flash floods affected 132,917 persons  in six Mindanao provinces and two cities, 4,802 of them in evacuation centers, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said [...]

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/18 October) – The proposal to construct a multimillion flood control system in the city will top the concerns that Mayor Peter Miguel will bring up in his meeting Tuesday in Manila with President Benigno S. Aquino III and other top national officials. Miguel said the city needs the President’s help in [...]

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/17 October) – The Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (RDRRMC) has warned residents of more floods until 2011. Director Carmelito Lupo of the Office of Civil Defense in Northern Mindanao said that the “weak to moderate” La Nina that started in July this year could further strengthen based on [...]

KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/16 October) — A total of 11,450 families affected by the recent floods in five towns in North Cotabato had received relief operations from the provincial government since August this year, according to reports from the Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office (PSWDO). The beneficiaries, most of them farmers, are from towns of [...]

KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/15 Sept) – More than 4,000 families in Sultan Kudarat province have been displaced as flashfloods triggered by intermittent rains swept anew the area during the last three days. As this developed, the city council of Koronadal City declared on Tuesday the city to be under the state of calamity due to the [...]

KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/15 Sept) – The city government here is seeking the national government’s assistance for the proposed construction of multimillion drainage structures that would help end the perennial flooding in various low-lying communities in the city. Mayor Peter Miguel said Wednesday the City Disaster Coordinating Council (CDCC) passed a resolution appealing for the intervention [...]

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/13 September) — Some 284 families in Koronadal City and two other municipalities in South Cotabato have been displaced following the flashfloods and landslides that hit the area Friday night, an official of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)-Region 12 said Monday. Bonifacio Selma, DSWD-12’s disaster operations coordinator, said their [...]

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/13 Sept) —  A remote village in Koronadal City has been isolated following several major landslides Sunday night that buried a wide stretch of the provincial road leading to the area, officials said Monday. Koronadal Mayor Peter Miguel said officials of Barangay Assumption reported that the area’s main road was totally shut [...]

KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/12 September) – The flash floods late Friday that triggered landslides and killed five persons should serve as a wakeup call for people to care for the environment, a local official said. “We should plant more trees in the mountains, refrain from dumping wastes in the creeks and start declogging waterways [to avoid [...]

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/11 September)  – At least 15 families from two municipalities in South Cotabato lost their homes due to flashfloods and landslides that hit the area Friday night, an official of the Provincial Disaster Coordinating Council (PDCC) confirmed Saturday. Nelida Pereira, Provincial Social Welfare and Development chief and PDCC coordinator, said the Municipal [...]