CLASS SUSPENSION. Learners of the Calasiao Comprehensive National High School bring protection against the rain on Tuesday (August 29, 2023) in Calasiao town, Pangasinan. Seven towns canceled classes on Oct. 3 due to Typhoon Jenny. (PNA File Photo courtesy of DepEd Ilocos Region)
MALASIQUI, Pangasinan — Classes have been suspended in seven towns of Pangasinan on Tuesday due to the effects of Typhoon Jenny.
Classes in all levels are suspended in the municipalities of San Manuel, Pozorrubio, and San Jacinto; pre-school to high school in Asingan, Mangaldan, and San Fabian towns; and pre-school to elementary in Manaoag town.
In a phone interview, Pangasinan Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office (PDRRMO) operations and training head Vincent Chu said a blue alert has been raised in these areas.
The local disaster risk reduction and management councils are encouraged to undertake and implement science and evidence-based decisions within their area of responsibility and closely monitor the weather bureau’s tropical cyclone bulletins, warnings, and other advisories.
Under the blue alert of the Office of the Civil Defense, critical services and facilities, increasing capabilities for logistic requirements, conducting resource inventory, and stockpiling are mandated while member agencies are tasked to ensure no sailing or fishing, or swimming activities in areas with gale warnings or other related issuances
Pangasinan PDRRMO on Monday launched a pre-disaster assessment with concerned national government agencies to review protocols, corresponding preparedness measures, and response activities.
The barangay councils in the province were also directed to activate their barangay response teams, while the province’s emergency vehicles, trucks, and water search and rescue teams are on standby in case of preemptive evacuation, Chu said.
Chu added that fishers have been prohibited from sailing and swimming has been discouraged in the province’s beaches amid the weather disturbance.
Typhoon Jenny slightly weakened as it moved northwestward over the Philippine Sea,the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said in its 11 a.m. weather bulletin on October 3.
The state-run weather bureau estimated the center of the typhoon’s eye at 330 km. east of Basco Batanes or 340 kilometers east of Itbayat, Batanes.
It is packed with maximum sustained winds of 155 kilometers per hour (km/h) near the center and gustiness of up to 190 km/h.
Wind signal number 1 was raised over Cagayan, including Babuyan Islands; the northern and eastern portions of Isabela – Maconacon, Divilacan, Palanan, Santa Maria, San Pablo, Tumauini, Cabagan, Ilagan City, San Mariano, Santo Tomas, Dinapigue, Benito Soliven; Naguilian, Gamu, Quirino, Delfin Albano, Quezon, and Mallig.
Also included under this signal number are Apayao, the northeastern part of Abra — Tineg, Lacub, Malibcong; the northern part of Kalinga, specifically Balbalan, Pinukpuk, Rizal, and the City of Tabuk; and Ilocos Norte. (PNA)
