OFFICE OF Civil Defense (OCD) administrator and National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) executive director Ricardo Jalad on Tuesday inspected a newly-constructed "three-in-one" facility of the OCD at Fort Magsaysay, Nueva Ecija which can serve as an alternative command center.
Jalad was joined in his inspection by OCD Operations Service director Bernardo Rafaelito Alejandro IV and General Services Division chief Christopher Cacutan, the agency said in a post on its official Facebook page on Wednesday.
It added that the facility in Nueva Ecija could also serve as an "alternative command center" of the NDRRMC.
Meanwhile, NDRRMC spokesperson Mark Cashean Timbal, in a message to the Philippine News Agency, said the facility at Fort Magsaysay consists of a warehouse, office, and operations center.
He added this is among the back-up facilities of OCD should the NDRRMC Operations Center in Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City become inoperational due to a "destructive calamity".
Another alternative facility is located in Air Force City, Angeles, Pampanga, Timbal added. (By Priam Nepomuceno)
