00:00The Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council Eastern Visayas suspended the travel of vehicles passing through the Bicol Region to Visayas and Mindanao.
00:11This is to speed up the relief operations to the PIA's Sol Anarcon in Balitang, Pambansa.
00:19The Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council Eastern Visayas suspended the travel of vehicles passing through the Bicol Region to Visayas and Mindanao
00:33except if the travel is related to humanitarian assistance and disaster response operations in the region
00:40According to Regional Director Lord Byron Toricarion of the Office of Civil Defense Region 8, he is the chairperson of the RDRRMC in Eastern Visayas
00:49This is to speed up the ongoing relief response efforts to the affected residents and not to add to the traffic jams in all entry and exit points in Region 5 and Region 8.
01:01The suspension of travel is for all non-essential travels.
01:06These are leisures, family, not related to HADR operation or response operation in Bicol.
01:15So this is covering from any point of origin of passing through to us that the end destination is Bicol onwards.
01:25It was given to Toricarion that they allow if the destination is only up to Alin Northern Summary.
01:31According to Veronica Reposar, Land Transportation Officer of the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board of LTFRB Region 8,
01:40the bus operators and drivers already know the suspension of travel.
01:44A driver of the GFO Tourist Bus was lucky to be stranded in Tagloban Terminal
01:49instead of traveling to Manila.
01:53The GFO Tourist Bus is traveling to Maasin, Manila and vice versa.
01:58Our company got a visa from us.
02:01It's really hard now in Bicol.
02:04It's flooded.
02:06That's why we chose to be stranded here instead of there.
02:12Because it's hard to be stranded because there are many passengers.
02:17From the Philippine Information Agency, Eastern Visayas, Sol Anarcon for Balitang Pambansa.
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