Mayon evacuees from extended danger zone can go home

LEGAZPI CITY, Philippines – Evacuees residing outside the eight-kilometer danger zone of Mayon Volcano can return to their homes starting Monday, Albay management officials said yesterday.

Cedric Daep, chief of the Albay Public Safety and Emergency Management Office, said he met with the mayors and concerned government officials to identify the residents who could be allowed to come home.

“Tell them that their houses are not located inside the eight-kilometer radius danger zone,” he told the mayors during their meeting.

Daep said that based on the new markers installed by geologists and geodetic surveyors of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs), the barangays outside the danger zone of Mayon are Alcala and Salvacion in Daraga; Muladbucad Pequeno in Guinobatan; and portions of Sto. Niño in Sto. Domingo.

Phivolcs recently installed 138 new markers.