INSENSITIVE TEXT MESSAGE LINGAYEN–The San Roque Dam can be faulted for being the source or cause of the immense and worst flooding that hit Pangasinan but what it is not, that it is about to collapse or that it has been weakened by the unusual volume of water the past…

LINGAYEN–The Provincial Disaster Coordinating Council (PDCC) launched a coordinated search and rescue operation in severely flooded areas in the province at the height of the calamity that struck Thursday. It divided the affected areas into three sectors and each team was manned by composite groups.

LINGAYEN–The provincial government saw the writing on the wall – a destructive flood that would inundate a large section of eastern Pangasinan – when it received the alert from the San Roque that it would initially release water 13 meters high in its dam on Thursday, October 8 mid afternoon….

ROSALES–It was on October 9, Friday dawn when floodwaters in 32 towns and three cities in the province were initially seen rising fast due to the swelling of major rivers, notably the Agno River, initially from the continuous rains unleashed by Typhoon Pepeng. It was aggravated when the San Roque…

AFTER receiving reports that Pangasinan has only two rubber boats, Fourth District Rep. Jose de Venecia Jr., who was in Thailand last Thursday, called on his friends abroad to donate rubber boats for his district and the province. De Venecia said first to respond to his call for help were…