DUMAGUETE CITY – Five barangays in Canlaon City, Negros Oriental, are being closely monitored amid the recent ash emissions of Mt. Kanlaon, a city official involved in disaster response said Wednesday. READ: 30-minute ash emission seen over Kanlaon Volcano on Sunday Seth Bariga, information officer-designate of Canlaon City’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC), told the Philippine News Agency that trucks are on standby to evacuate residents of these barangays if necessary. The five barangays — Masulog, Lumapaw, Pula, Malaiba, and Linothangan — are outside Mt. Kanlaon’s four-kilometer Permanent Danger Zone (PDZ) but within its six-kilometer extended PDZ. Bariga said parts of […]... Keep on reading: 5 barangays under monitoring after Kanlaon ash emissions