Minutes after the country welcomed the first hours of 2023, the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) Operations Center received reports of four fire incidents that occurred almost simultaneously in the National Capital Region (NCR). The PRC immediately deployed its firefighting and emergency medical services to help put out the fire that broke out in residential areas […]
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The initial report of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Environmental Management Bureau (DENR-EMB) has shown that air pollution levels in two Metro Manila cities have exceeded the safe standards during the first two hours of January 1, 2022. The DENR-EMB report showed that the air pollution levels in the cities of Marikina and Manila […]
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) recorded a substantial reduction in air pollution levels on the first day of 2021 in Metro Manila by as much as 59 percent compared to pollution levels recorded last year. DENR Secretary Roy Cimatu cited the support of Metro Manila local executives and residents to the government’s […]