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Knee to waist-deep floods inundate a section of Dr. Arcadio Santos Avenue in Parañaque City on July 22, 2025. Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News

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HABAGAT FLOODING- PARANAQUE

Katrina Domingo

ABS-CBN News

<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/175325391746120250722-paranque-flooding-MD1.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Knee to waist-deep floods inundate a section of Dr. Arcadio Santos Avenue in Parañaque City on July 22, 2025. Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News</span></span></span></div><p>WASHINGTON DC — The Philippines is looking to deploy its air assets and is seeking augmentation from the United States for the possible mobilization of some 3 million relief packs that are prepositioned in Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) sites.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/7/22/afp-activates-edca-sites-for-disaster-response-amid-crising-habagat-1509">AFP activates EDCA sites for disaster response amid Crising, habagat</a></div><p>The move comes as the Philippines continues to be battered by weather disturbances in the past week, triggering flash floods in different parts of the country.</p><p>“Because of the merging of the two tropical depressions and the incoming monsoons, we will need their assistance in terms of airlift and other capabilities,” Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro told reporters in a press conference here.</p><p>“There are relief goods in place already that have been prepositioned by the US government. Now, it is the mobility assistance that we do need,” he said.</p><p>While the Philippines has “sufficient Black Hawks in order to lift goods to vulnerable areas,” the national government sees that the distribution of relief items needs to be done “on a higher scale.”</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/7/21/dswd-distributes-p45-m-aid-to-families-affected-by-crising-habagat-1420">DSWD distributes P45-M aid to families affected by Crising, habagat</a></div><p>“Every deployment, mind you, is very costly on both our side and their side, more so on their side because these capabilities are coming out of the theater – into the theater, so they entail considerable costs,” Teodoro said.</p><p>“Therefore, even on our utilization of our own air assets, this has to be coordinated so that we make maximum use of the asset and do not waste cargo space, and flying time, and ship time.”</p><p>President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. earlier instructed the Armed Forces of the Philippines to coordinate with the US Indo-Pacific Command for possible joint operations.</p><p>US INDOPACOM chief Admiral Paparo was supposed to meet Marcos Jr. in Washington DC, but returned to Hawaii to start talks on the joint disaster relief and rescue efforts.</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><div><br/></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/v06hW81_nBw?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div>

<p>“There are relief goods in place already that have been prepositioned by the US government. Now, it is the mobility assistance that we do need,” Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro said.</p>

“There are relief goods in place already that have been prepositioned by the US government. Now, it is the mobility assistance that we do need,” Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro said.

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PH seeks US help to dispatch 3 million relief packs prepositioned in EDCA sites

Katrina Domingo,

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Published Jul 23, 2025 03:02 PM PHT

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