Adrian Erissle A.

Refuerzo
NSTP 1-VERNA
2015-04464
October 3, 2016

Hazardous/ Vulnerable Areas

In UP Baguio:
*Human Kinetics Program Building. It is established in a part where it is surrounded by large
pine trees, and large lumps of soil in which, cases like earthquake and heavy rain and wind
would cause the soil to erode and the trees to collapse. Also, it is built in a lower ground level
where it is greatly vulnerable for erosions, compared to the Kolehiyo ng Agham. *College of
Social Sciences Building. Similar to the HKP Building, its location makes the building at stake
during natural hazards. The trees, large rocks and soil in a slope outside the building could
possibly affect the building. *Cafeteria and Convenience Store. Since they are both situated in
a same building, it is more likely to be unsafe during fire and earthquake. The building is boxed
with surrounding buildings, making it difficult for students and teachers to escape during these
phenomena. The path outside the building is too narrow for many people to freely escape with
caution. The convenience store, located just below the cafeteria, is vulnerable in cases where the
foundations of the building poles collapse and people may be trapped inside. Given its structure
and its height, the location also makes it vulnerable when a building collapses, that of the
Institute of Management building,
In my place, Military Cutoff:
*My Boarding House. The danger in almost all of us here in Baguio is that houses are built
adjacent to other houses, or as what I would see it, clearly attached to neighboring houses. This
would pose a great risk during fire incident because it would widely affect many houses and
would devastate a lot of properties. Take the situation last December when fire caught houses in
Engineers Hill and created vast damages and losses in properties. And also, our house is located
above a steep slope. I could imagine an instance, i.e. earthquake, loosening the solidity of the soil
and making it erode in no time. *Hillside Road where an excavation site is going on until
now. That road is open since the excavation commenced. Many vehicles pass by. The risk is very
high since the workers in the excavation site continue doing their job everyday. We couldnt
anticipate instances wherein the soil will collapse and would induce landslide, harming the
vehicles and the workers themselves. *Drainages in front of my boarding house. The
waterway is often overflowing during heavy rains. This causes many materials in sewages to
flow from one place to another and sometimes, it causes the road to be slippery.

DISASTER RESPONSE PLAN

Preparation:
INFORMATION DISSEMINATION & ACTION. This would be a first step to making all people
involve in the awareness when different hazards come. Seminars, workshops or barangay
services or awareness programs should be implemented in order to provide everyone the
knowledge on how to prepare themselves when these arise. The government of Baguio must
support health, safety and awareness programs related to disaster preparedness that
municipalities do so that the implementation will be successful.

Adrian Erissle A. Refuerzo

NSTP 1-VERNA
2015-04464
October 3, 2016

Programs must include the emergence of people and stakeholders before, during and after
hazards. These must include practices on how to perform these precautions. Workshops would be
valuable in cases where municipalities hold dispersed actions in times of hazards. Every
household must have basic knowledge on how to repair the necessities inside their houses, or
cleaning their surroundings, especially containers which create various kinds of diseases.
Oplan Taob (or the Dengue Prevention program), as an example, is often implemented in many
schools and would eradicate the spread of dengue illness. Barangay General Cleaning should
also be one way to lessen the impact of the hazards, through cleaning drainages, disposing
wastes properly and fogging (spraying). Households also must be aware of the necessities they
need, esp. first aid kit, in order to survive the hazards. But above all, the action must be taken
seriously and whole-heartedly within ourselves because the stake is in our hands when we work
or choose not to work. We must let disaster awareness rule before, after or when these disasters
are happening.
Response:
ACTION AT ONCE. This is a crucial part of the scenario wherein as the disaster is happening,
we must act at once when problem arises.
During earthquake, especially on vulnerable areas in UP Baguio, make sure the escape routes
are safe enough for students and teachers to exit so that we can prevent losses. The proper
execution of Duck, Cover and Hold is needed to mitigate the impact of debris, in any cases.
Panic does nothing but danger in us. People must also get away from large buildings and trees,
like in HKP and CSS Buiding. I suppose schools are equipped with evacuation plans. Fire Exit is
very helpful also during fire incident, but a bit of caution when going down stairs, by not rushing
to the door and pushing each other in the stairs. The electric wires must be secured beforehand
(by securing, I mean the wires are not tangled with each other), so that when these disasters
arrive, they wont be caught by fire. During heavy rains, leakages in ceilings must immediately
be covered so that houses wont be easily destroyed and would prevent flood inside. Stay inside
the house and keep ourselves calm. Same as through with other hazards, we must act at once
when certain problems emerge.
Recovery and Mitigation:
COLLECTIVE ACTION AND PREVENTION. Communities come and gather together in order
to make things in order and bring it back to normal. The aftermath of the hazard caused
different casualties and damages that need to be repaired.
In order for the bringing back to normal happen, theres an urgency to amass people and start
with repairing small things. The students and teachers help one another to remove the trees that
fell down or sweep the paths in order to not increase the possibility of damages in the future.
Households must help one another to fix drainages and provide each other necessities and
advices in order to evade unacceptable risks. Family members help hand in hand to repair their
pipes, the backyard, the leakages, or any broken property. The government could extend help by
sending trained workers in communities greatly in need of help. Case in Hillside Road must be
considered by the government by closing the road on both ends and provide enough supplies and

Adrian Erissle A. Refuerzo

NSTP 1-VERNA
2015-04464
October 3, 2016

workers in order to hasten the work and be able to open again the road safely. The buildings must
be built with enough foundation or support/frames in order to secure that they wont give up
easily. Through these, we are able to alleviate, if not totally remove, the dangers of hazards.