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OVERWEIGHT Truck owner reaps raps for Calinan bridge collapse By JECIA ANNE OPIANA
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HIS does not happen very often. But a heavily-loaded truck that chose to be the wrong bridge at the wrong time has earned its owner the appropriate charges that the City Engineering Office will be filing the soonest. Engr. Joseph Felizarta of the CEO said the truck that weighed up to 10 tons excluding cargo crossed the Riverside Calinan Bridge on May 6, triggering the bridge’s collapse. Felizarta did not divulge the name of the operator of the truck. The bridge had a 5-ton capacity and was strictly used for light vehicles only.
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PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT. A personnel of Central 911’s Urban Search and Rescue Team lowers an injured “victim” on a stokes basket stretcher using high angle rope rescue procedure during the nationwide simultaneous earthquake drill at the junction of Bolton and Bonifacio Streets in Davao City on Thursday. The drill aimed to assess the response of both government agencies and the public on a 7.2 magnitude earthquake that could possibly hit Davao City. Lean Daval Jr.
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OLDIERS who were wounded in action in the besieged Marawi City expressed eagerness to return to the front line, officials at the 4th Infantry Division in Camp Evangelista here said Tuesday. Lt. Col. Jonna Dalida-Dalaguit, chief of the 4ID Medical Corps, said many of the soldiers who sustained minor wounds went back to the field two days after admission at the Army station hospital
inside the camp. Dalaguit added all wounded officers have returned to combat. But she emphasized that the decision to send the soldiers back to Marawi would depend on their mental state and only after they have undergone stress debriefing. She said two Marines snipers who were hit in the arms asked to be deployed again after knowing that their wounds were not serious.
Dalaguit explained that non-serious wounds refer to wounds that don’t need surgeries and those that cause wide cuts in the muscles but don’t cause fractures. She said that as of Tuesday they have received 414 wounded personnel from various service branches of the Armed Forces, but only 20 were considered as major injuries. Of this number, 289 had been debriefed by a team from
the Ateneo de Davao University and other volunteers. “Kung sabay-sabay (If several casualties arrive at the same time), we pre-coordinate with private hospitals and doctors,” Dalaguit said. She said field doctors in Marawi administer initial treatment to wounded soldiers, adding they have forward support medical teams and ambulances for each battalion. F WOUNDED, 8