00:00The number of residents remaining in evacuation centers in Negros Island continues to decline
00:06despite the volcano's eruption.
00:09The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council states
00:14that more than 3,000 families are in the evacuation center in Region 6 and 7.
00:19This is lower than more than 3,000 from just 13,000 last week.
00:26OCD Administrator Undersecretary Ariel Nepomuceno
00:30appealed to the local governments of La Castellena and Bagos City
00:34to reconsider the decision to return residents to their homes.
00:40According to Nepomuceno, people's lives are more important
00:44than their property as soon as the volcano erupts again.
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