SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union: La Union was placed under a state of calamity on Friday after Typhoon Lawin destroyed almost P240 million in infrastructure projects and agricultural crops, mostly ready-to-harvest rice plants.
In a special session on Friday afternoon, Vice Governor Aureo Nisce and Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) members unanimously approved the resolution after Governor Francisco Emmanuel Ortega 3rd made an urgent request to declare the province under a state of calamity to allow them to use the calamity fund to help those affected by the typhoon.
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