Mass Evacuation Drill in Libis

By Peter
April 25th, 2006 @ 7:23 AM News

The Libis commercial area will be having a Building Emergency Evacuation Plan (BEEP) exercise today where all buildings are requested to evacuate their offices to test the emergency evacuation plan in case of an earthquake, fire or other natural disaster.

The drill comes as a joint effort the National Disaster Coordinating Council, Phivolcs, the Philippine National Red Cross and the Bureau of Fire. At around 11am, the drill will call for 4 office towers, 5 condominiums and 2 commercial establishments to practice their BEEPs at the same time.

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3 Comments so far

  1. till (unregistered) on May 4th, 2006 @ 2:25 am

    How many people will that evacuate?

  2. Peter (unregistered) on May 4th, 2006 @ 11:43 am

    The estimate was around 15,000 total.

  3. charlie solis (unregistered) on May 7th, 2006 @ 2:54 am

    And where was the two major networks when this happened?


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