00:00There are children and babies who were kidnapped during a rescue operation in Lopez, Quezon.
00:07Jun Veneracion was there live. Jun?
00:15Mel, here in Barangay Gomez in the town of Lopez, Quezon,
00:19the rescuers did not stop the rescue of the affected residents even though it was still early in the morning.
00:26However, Mel's house caught on fire.
00:29That's why their rescue operation became more difficult.
00:36We need to rescue them because the water level here is very high.
00:43There's the mother.
00:45Because of the heavy rain caused by Hurricane Christine and the rapid flood,
00:50the rescuers helped rescue the residents
00:53of Barangay Gomez in Lopez, Quezon from last night until this early in the morning.
00:58There's one more.
00:59Okay, I'll take care of that.
01:01I'll go to the mobile telephone.
01:03Okay, sure.
01:04There's one more.
01:05There's one more?
01:06Yes, there's one more.
01:07Oh, okay. There's one more here.
01:10In this situation, we need to act quickly because it's hard to fight the darkness.
01:15Many things can happen.
01:17Even though the pre-emptive evacuation was done early in the morning,
01:20there were still some people left in their houses.
01:23The rescuers were able to breathe easily when the light came on
01:27and they were able to rescue the people who needed to be rescued.
01:30In case it gets worse, we will put a blanket.
01:34Fortunately, we don't have any reported casualties.
01:39In the entire town of Lopez, there were 400 evacuees.
01:44I'm afraid of the water because the water pressure is high.
01:48That's why I'm nervous.
01:50Earlier in the morning, they were coming back to their houses.
01:55Because of the flood, 12 barangays were submerged.
01:59But now, only 7 are affected.
02:02Our water is up to here.
02:04That's last night?
02:05That's last night.
02:06Now, the water just came out.
02:08It's up to here.
02:10But even though the flood came, the residents are still not able to leave.
02:15Maybe later, there will be water again.
02:18I'm afraid that we won't be able to leave for a while.
02:25Mayor, for now, only the lower barangays are affected by the flood.
02:30So if they don't follow the strong rain yesterday,
02:35tomorrow, there will be no flood in the affected areas.
02:39I hope so.
02:40Thank you very much, June Veneration.
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