Message of
the Mayor for 2021 LDRRM Plan
Our
experience with calamities, both natural and man-made, has taught us valuable
lessons. Foremost of these is that disasters spare no one. Floods, typhoons,
earthquakes, pestilence, droughts, fires, and most recently the COVID-19
pandemic affect all of us without exception, and most especially the target of
our ongoing Rebolusyon Laban sa Kahirapan: the indigents among us.
It
is, therefore, is our best interest to plan ahead of time because as, the
expression goes, “No one is born yesterday” as far as encounters with disasters
is concerned. In fact, familiarity with calamities is an indelible part of
being Filipino, with our archipelagic country being situated within the Pacific
Ring of Fire. We have become paragons of resilience, taking the ever-pliant
bamboo as our constant example of bending with the inevitable storms of life.
Preparing
plans such as this should be second nature to us by now. It is, in fact, a duty
and an obligation, considering the frequency and intensity with which some
disasters hit us unexpectedly.
We
owe it to ourselves, especially to our poverty-stricken constituents, to come
prepared and forearmed instead of being shocked into isolation and inaction.
Bayambang
MDRRMC’s 2021 Local Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (LDRRM) Plan is a
distillation of all the lessons learned at home and even those observed from
others’ own experience. Even as we fervently implore the Almighty, through our
patron Saint Vincent Ferrer, to spare us and our town from major disasters, we
also wish that LDRRM 2021 will serve its purpose well in the face of the
inevitable.
DR. CEZAR T.
QUIAMBAO
Municipal Mayor
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