Bulacan PDRRMC receives Bakas Parangal Award
CITY OF MALOLOS – Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRRMC) Chairman and Gov. Wilhelmino M. Sy-Alvarado added another honor to the province after the Bulacan PDRRMC was hailed as Bakas Parangal ng Kadakilaan awardee in the recently concluded Bakas Parangal Awarding Ceremony held at the Department of National Defense Social Hall, Camp General Emilio Aguinaldo, Quezon City.
The award was given to the province for its immediate actions in deploying personnel and assets together with the municipalities of Bustos, Norzagaray and Doña Remedios Trinidad in the search, rescue and retrieval operations of the seven trapped construction workers in the collapsed Sumag Tunnel Project in General Nakar, Quezon and helicopter crash in the vicinity of Brgy. Kabayunan, Doña Remedios Trinidad, Bulacan.
According to Gov. Alvarado, it is the natural instinct of Bulakenyos to help whenever help is needed.
National Defense Secretary Delfin N. Lorenzana, who is also the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council Chairperson, believes that the individuals and groups who received the award are the examples of modern day heroes.
In the speech of the defense secretary delivered by Department of National Defense Usec. Cardozo M. Luna, the outstanding display of courage and selflessness relieved the great peril brought by disasters.
“ ‘Di natin maikakaila na ang binigyan natin ng mga parangal ngayon ay tunay ding mga bayani. Sila ang patunay na may mga bayani tayong nakakasalamuha sa araw-araw, nagsasakripisyo ng oras, nagbabahagi ng lakas at talento upang magpakita ng tunay na malasakit sa kapwa at patuloy na tumutugon sa mga suliranin ng ating lipunan,” Usec. Luna read.
Prior this award, Bulacan already garnered 90 recognitions including the National Gawad Kalasag Hall of Famer Award and two-time Regional Gawad Kalasag Hall of Fame Award.
Bakas Parangal is a recognition of merit and token of thanksgiving bestowed by the NDRRMC to individuals or groups who have exerted exemplary and extraordinary acts of compassion in reaching out to those who are in urgent need of assistance in times of calamities.