Bulacan under state of calamity due to floods

CITY OF MALOLOS—Bulacan was placed under a state of calamity on Thursday due to massive floods after weeks of rain.

Bulacan Sangguniang Panlalawigan Resolution No. 708-T’2026 declared a state of calamity in the province during the Provincial Board’s regular session. 

Bulacan’s coastal towns of Calumpit, Hagonoy, and Bulakan, which were inundated by six-foot-high floodwaters, earlier declared a state of calamity in their jurisdictions. 

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Manuel Lukban Jr., chief of the Bulacan Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office (PDRRMO), told the Inquirer that all 23 towns and cities of Bulacan continue to be affected by floods. On the other hand, the mountainous town of Dona Remedios Trinidad (DRT) has recorded landslides due to almost two weeks of continuous rains. 

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The PDRRMO reported that 960,821 residents from 275,000 families were directly affected by flooding, while damage to agriculture, rice crops and vegetable production, fisheries, livestock and poultry reached more than P130 million. 

The flooding was caused by high tide in Manila Bay, flash floods from the mountainous areas of Bulacan and Rizal provinces, backflooding from Pampanga, and discharges from dams in the territory.

Gov. Daniel Fernando had called for an emergency meeting to assess the need for a state of calamity declaration. 

“Our regular resources would not be enough to bring help to our people affected by this massive flooding. We need more funds to reach out to them; we need to declare a state of calamity,” he earlier told reporters during the Aug. 14 observance of the 448th Anniversary of the Foundation of Bulacan./coa