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 Regional Director Adriano D. Fuego of the Regional Disaster Coordinating Council Region 9 The forum will be conducted by Director Ronald I. Flores, Executive Officer, OCD-DND and Regional Director Adriano D. Fuego of the Regional Disaster Coordinating Council Region 9 (RDCC9). The said forum will take place in Dapitan City Resort Hotel, Sunset Boulevard, Dapitan City on July 6, this year. Civil Defense Disaster Coordinators from the region including Engr. Vince Quipot of the City Mayor's Office of Pagadian City will attend. It may be recalled that last year, a commemoration of the 1976 Tsunami Incident was conducted through the efforts of the Provincial OCD under Mr. Lito Castillo and the city. The tsunami happened 30 years ago in this city claiming the lives of more than 3000 devastating the coastal area of Pagadian and nearby coastal towns. With this year's theme, "Safe Ka Ba? Programa Laban sa Kalamidad, Tungo sa Pagunlad", the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) of the Department of National Defense (DND), Region 9, enjoins all sectors to participate the celebrations of the National Disaster Consciousness Month pursuant to Executive Order 137 of then President Joseph Estrada.{sidebar id=9} E.O. 137, a one-month celebration, was signed by President Estrada to let the Filipino people be aware on disaster preparedness be it natural or man-made. It supersedes Proclamation No. 296, dated July 28, 1988 which implemented only in a weeks time, or the National Disaster Consciousness Week, every first week of July.
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