Fifty families still living within Mt. Mayon six-kilometer permanent danger zone (PDZ) were evacuated amid the volcano’s continued unrest, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) said Sunday.
Social welfare workers from DSWD’s Bicol field office and Disaster Response Management Division found the families in Barangay Anoling, one of the geographically-isolated areas in Camalig town in Albay.
DSWD FO 5 Regional Director Norman Laurio said the evacuated families would be temporarily sheltered at the Baligang Elementary School.
The Camalig Municipal Police Station, the Municipal Social Welfare and Development Office, and the Municipal Disaster Response and Management Office of the Camalig local government unit conducted the forced evacuation.
Mayon registered 26 volcanic earthquakes and 303 rockfall events over the past 24 hours, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said on Sunday.
Mayon Volcano is under an Alert Level 3 due to intensified unrest or magmatic unrest.
With this, entry into the six-kilometer radius of Mayon Volcano’s PDZ is not allowed. Flying any aircraft close to the volcano is likewise prohibited.