Officials and volunteers from the Civil Defence Commis-sion (CDC) in collaboration with members of the Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA) on May 12 engaged residents of the Upper Mahaica River communities of Little and Big Baiboo in testing their readiness for emergency flood operations, the CDC said in a press release.
During the largely simulated exercise, the residents along with CDC personnel were required to demonstrate the requisite systematic actions to be taken in the event of a real time flood hazard which had the potential to wreak physical, material and economic havoc on the community.
The release stated that the community was issued with handheld VHF radios to enable communications and members of the
