MALACAÑANG
    
    MANILA
   
  
   
    BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
   
  
   
    PROCLAMATION NO. 554
   
  
   
    DECLARING A STATE OF CALAMITY IN BARANGAY TEJERO, CEBU CITY WHICH WAS ADVERSELY AFFECTED BY FIRE
   
  
   
    WHEREAS
   
   , a fire of undetermined cause in Barangay Tejero, Cebu City last 9 March 1995 affected an estimated 454 families, comprising more than 2,000 persons;
  
   
    WHEREAS
   
   , evacuation centers set-up by the Department of Social Welfare and Development in Bagong Buhay, Blessed Sacrament and Doña Pepang Cemetery were unable to service all affected families/persons;
  
   
    WHEREAS
   
   , the cost of assistance from the local government units, the Philippine National Red Cross and a private citizen has amounted to P155,581.20;
  
   
    NOW THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS
   
   , President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby declare a state of calamity in Barangay Tejero, Cebu City, which was adversely affected by fire.
  
All departments and other government agencies concerned are hereby directed to implement and execute relief and rehabilitation work in accordance with existing operational plans, directives and orders issued in connection with calamities.
   
    IN WITNESS WHEREOF
   
   , I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.
  
   Done in the City of Manila, this
   
    24th
   
   day of
   
    March
   
   in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and ninety-five.
  
   (Sgd.)
   
    FIDEL V. RAMOS
   
  
   By the President
   
   (Sgd.) TEOFISTO T. GUINGONA, JR.
   
   
