TYPHOON HAIYAN Less than a month after the Bohol Earthquake, the Visayas Region was yet again placed under a different kind of threat. After the earth shook, wind and rain descended upon the Islands of Visayas. Thousadns perished with thousands more missing. Again, WISAR Team responded to the cries of help. Now broken into 2 [...]
BOHOL EARTHQUAKE On October 15, 2013, the Visayas Region of the Philippines was rocked by a 7.2 Magnitude Quake. Dubbed as the most deadliest earthquake in 23 years claiming 222 lives, 8 missing, and 976 people injured. In all, more than 73,000 structures were damaged, of which more than 14,500 were totally destroyed. Immediately, the WISAR [...]
22 October 2015 , Thursday night Call from WISAR Dispatcher for the Augementation at Ty Lando to Calumpit Bulacan Flood Assistance, and additional Rescue Manpower requested by PDRRMC Bulacan Rescue thru Cristy Dante Shepard for Rescue Ops for Typhoon Lando, that flooded the Province of Calumpit Bulacan. Advance Party was sent to the Office of [...]
6 subjects 0608: Namonitor ni Idol Red Mars Gamboa ang missing sa Climbers while nagmemeeting para sa somewhere namin. At tinawagan ni Idol Balbas Doki and ni Pres. Ian Borja II to confirm missing sa Maranat. Prep Up for SAR Ops.receive call and text of mummy Gladys and yaya Arlene Borillo Bolante re man power. [...]
A Successful Mountain Rescue Operation at Mt. Oriod - Maranat Falls - April 3 to 4, 2015. Swimming Training cum Maranat Hike cum Rescue Operation: Our supposedly swimming session turned out to be a much unexpected journey for us. I was on my way to Makati for a swimming session but due to certain circumstances, [...]
Successfull Mountain SAR operation at pico de loro in ternate cavite. Feb6-7,2015. 10pm day1 we were informed of a distress call from two hikers who lost their way during the descent from the shoulder camp of pico. As wisar operatives residing in cavite, the wonderful wisar volunteers sprang into action. We notified Konsi Ian Borja [...]
Wisar operational details: (For wisar eyes only) Last sunday(jan25), 3 female hikers did a dayhike and climbed Pico De Loro (mts palay-palay/mataas na gulod protected landscape)in Cavite. They reached the summit and was on their way back to the DENR jumpoff point when they missed a turn (left turn 100meters after Manong Rey's hut). Instead of [...]
On the early hours of July 14, 2014, I recieved a call that there was a group of mountaineers who were lost while doing a traverse of Mt. Marami in Magallanes Cavite to Pico de Loro in Ternate Cavite. Cavite based WISAR members immediateky mobilized with permission from Doc Ted and Konsi Ian since we were among [...]
During the HolyWeek of April 2014, WISAR for the first time had a chance to be part of the volunteer SAR teams in Bantay Banahaw in Kinabuhayan Dolores Quezon. We coordinated with the Quezon PDRRM, Ugnayan ng Mamumundok ng Banahaw, and other Quezon based organizations to have WISAR in their roster of volunteers and they approved. [...]
This was WISAR's "maiden ops" On June 19,2013 roughly a week before the graduation of WISAR Batch1, we received word that a mountaineer went missing and has not returned home. His father is already worried about his son's predicament. We did the necessary coordinations and victim profiling and found out that the subject climbed Mt. Manabu in [...]
