The Lapu-Lapu City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (DRRMO) activated the Blue Alert status, as it braced for possible untoward incidents in the New Year revelry.
Beginning noontime on Wednesday, December 31, 2025 to noontime on Thursday, January 1, 2026, the Emergency Operations Center is activated in Lapu-Lapu City.
The alert prompts tight monitoring of areas that draw crowds, such as markets and firecracker stalls in Barangay Babag.
Emergency vehicles such as ambulance units and firetrucks are on standby, including equipment for emergency response, especially for mass casualty incident.
All DRRMO personnel are on standby as well.
Drei Gumahin, team supervisor, said that based on previous experiences, cases they had responded to mostly involved vehicular accidents and fireworks-related injuries (FWRI) due to drunkenness.
