Janeah

Greetings Ms. Nicole! I’m Janeah Pañe from Reporter Friends in front of you! In this video we’ll be
presenting our chosen Disaster Risk using the Risk Triangle.

First, let’s discuss what is risk? Risk is the combination of the probability of a hazard to happen
as well as its negative impact. So, the Disaster Risk that we have chosen is the risk of injury and habitat
loss from the flood in Barangay Paknaan.

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Alrey

The risk triangle has 3 essential components, those 3 are: Hazard, Vulnerability and Exposure. If
any of the three components are left unattended or increases, then the amount of risk also increases.
However, if we manage to solve or find a solution to eliminate these components, the amount of risk
will decrease.

EJ

Let’s first discuss the hazards of our disaster risk. The hazard leading to a flood is a typhoon,
collapsed dams and overflowing rivers. Typhoons are natural disasters; we can’t prevent them but we
can prevent the effects of it or we could prevent it from resulting into a flood through proper waste
disposal and planting trees.

Febbe

Overflowing rivers are caused by collapsed dams, it is also a hazard in our risk. We fix the
collapsed dams so that they could hold up water stream as they’re intended to do so and that it could fix
both the collapsed dam hazard and the overflowing river hazard. If we take action in eliminating these
hazards the amount of risk will decrease.

Samantha

The next component is the Vulnerability of our Disaster Risk. There are 4 different types of
vulnerability, we’ve listed 1 of each. In physical vulnerability we have pointed out the durability
problems of wooden houses. We could fix these by advising the pewhiople to use concrete forms or if
they couldn’t afford, they could always evacuate in the nearest evacuation centers. Connected to the
solution of the first vulnerability, poor families are examples of economic vulnerability. They mostly live
in low settlements because they couldn’t afford to be in a safer area.

Jairah

For the social type of vulnerability, we’ve pointed out the elderly as they’re the ones who tend
to be last or the slowest to act in times during a disaster. Our proposed solution to this is educate the
youth to help everyone who struggles in evacuating during a disaster and that no one should be left
behind. Lastly, for the environmental vulnerability. We think that the lack of trees is one of the many
reasons why flood happens. In order to aid the lack of trees, we suggest to do a tree planting drive in
order to have trees in the barangay.
Alyssa

Moving on, the last component of the risk triangle. Exposure is where we identify the people,
buildings or other which would be affected by the disaster risk. There are a lot of people that could be
affected by the flood, but generally we listed families, homeless people, and stray animals.

Niño

The only thing we could do to lessen the exposure is to have the people evacuate to a safe area
and help stray animals out of the flood, we must not neglect the animals. Of course, the people who’ll
evacuate must also obey the evacuation orders given to them. They must stay informed, listen to radio
or television, and check social media for updates if possible.

Mench

A quick recall of the risk triangle, now that we have already discussed the 3 components of our
disaster risk, we should know that if each component is not being solved it increases the risk of the
community. But if we perform certain actions that could help eliminate the risk component, then the
risk would be lowered and our community would be safe.

Bea

Each component has a specific solution, but generally, we must understand the risk, strengthen
our disaster risk governance to manage the disaster risk, investigate in disaster risk reduction for
resilience, and lastly, we must enhance preparedness for effective response.

That’s all for this video and thank you for watching miss Nicole! This is Bea Remulta, Mench Ed
Pangandoyon, Niño Gian Pelenio, Alyssa Obia, Jairah Luz, Samantha Marababol, Febbe Shagne Pepito, Ej
Nandoza, Alrey Magno, and Janeah Pañe, Reporter Friends signing out.