Mount Kanlaon spews ash on Dec. 23, 2024. Jonel Bermoy, ABS-CBN News, file

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1736652943900New Project.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner">Mount Kanlaon spews ash on Dec. 23, 2024. Jonel Bermoy, ABS-CBN News, file</span></span></span></div><p>MANILA — Social Welfare Secretary Rex Gatchalian has ordered the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s Disaster Response Management Group to send more food packs to Negros Island in anticipation of the potential eruption of Mount Kanlaon, which erupted last December and remains on Alert Level 3.</p><p>In a press release, DSWD said Gatchalian has assured the department’s field offices in the Central and Western Visayas regions that additional food packs would start coming in by Sunday.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/10/22/what-s-inside-dswd-family-food-packs-740">What’s inside DSWD family food packs</a></div><p>“We will fill our provincial warehouses on the island to the brim,” DSWD quotes Gatchalian as saying.</p><p>He said that DSWD must make sure that 40,000 food packs will have been delivered to Negros Oriental and another 40,000 to Negros Occidental by Monday.</p><p>Food packs are meant to sustain families that have been displaced by disasters like volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and floods.</p><p>“Check the maximum capacity for both sides of Kanlaon. I want maximum capacity the warehouses of Negros Oriental and Occidental. So we have to be ready,” Gatchalian said.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/regions/2024/12/27/tent-city-put-up-in-himamaylan-amid-preps-for-higher-alert-level-over-kanlaon-volcano-1545">Tent city put up in Himamaylan amid preps for higher alert level over Kanlaon Volcano</a></div><p>The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, in a bulletin on Saturday, reminded the public that Mount Kanlaon remains under Alert Level 3, which means there is &quot;an increased chance for sudden explosive eruptions to occur and endanger communities at risk with life-threatening volcanic hazards.&quot;</p><p>It said it has also monitored ground deformation at the volcano as well as a continuing emission of sulphur dioxid.</p><p>Phivolcs said these &quot;may indicate that the shallow magma conduit of the volcano is undergoing pressurization that may lead to an eruption broadly similar to the 9 December 2024 event,&quot; referring to the eruption last year.</p>

<p>Food packs are meant to sustain families that have been displaced by disasters like volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and floods.</p>

Food packs are meant to sustain families that have been displaced by disasters like volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and floods.

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DSWD sends more food packs to Negros Island in case of Kanlaon eruption

DSWD sends more food packs to Negros Island in case of Kanlaon eruption

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Published Jan 12, 2025 11:36 AM PHT

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