VIDEO: A cat was run over before start of #MMQuakeDrill at VMMC @InqMetro pic.twitter.com/FXVJ8FZU9B
— Erika Sauler (@erikasauler) July 30, 2015
No nine lives for this one.
It was a day of nerves at the Quezon City government’s earthquake drill on Thursday. Minutes before the drill started at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City Thursday, a cat was run over by a car entering the hospital.
A student participant who witnessed the accident cried and was accompanied by her classmates to a medical team.
A staff of the City Treasurer who was not aware of the earthquake drill at the Quezon City Hall became nervous and had to be calmed down, Mayor Herbert Bautista said.
Overall, Bautista said the earthquake drill went well. He said government interoperability was in place but disaster preparedness must be intensified at the community level as several barangays did not participate in the drill.
Also, some of the evacuation operations would have to be improved. In simulating the distribution of relief goods for evacuees, some residents who had stubs were not given relief goods. It turned out that the stubs were to facilitate the registration of evacuees.
A student participating the earthquake drill cries after seeing the dead cat. ERIKA SAULER