CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (CCDRRMO) has rejected the use of the term “retrieval operations” by Prime Waste Solutions (PWS) Cebu. The disaster office stressed that efforts at the collapsed Binaliw landfill remain a search-and-rescue mission and have not officially shifted to recovery. Councilor Dave Tumulak, head of the CCDRRMC, said the city has not ruled out the possibility of finding survivors and is therefore not in a position to declare the operation as purely retrieval, as stated in PWS Cebu’s January 14 press release. READ: EXPLAINER: What led to the deadly […]... Keep on reading: Binaliw operations still search-and-rescue not ‘retrieval’ - CDRRMO