An injured driver was rescued when his ‘ombak’ (a pedicab or a three-wheeled small vehicle) plunged into a roadside ravine in Barangay Camalog, at the Kalinga town of Pinukpuk on Thursday (July 23).
Members of the Tabuk City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (CDRRMO), who were on their way to attend a meeting in Pinukpuk, saw the vehicle and rushed to extract its driver who suffered injuries on his right arm and leg, according to Rhean Meg Quinsaat of the Tabuk DRRMO.
The man, whose identity was not released, was brought to the Rural Health Unit-Junction for treatment.
Other volunteers also arrived to help, including Pinukpuk Vice Mayor Shirlyn Alunday, who was also traveling to the same meeting the Tabuk team was attending. She alerted the police and local Rural Health Units (RHU) which deployed first responders to the accident site.