DAET, Camarines Norte --- Bodies of two fishermen recovered late Monday were among the 13 missing persons listed by the Provincial Disaster coordinating Council (PDCC) here in the aftermath of widespread flooding on Sunday.

        But the PDCC report as of 5:00 a.m. Tuesday that identified the dead as Alfredo Lalim (not Lasini as earlier reported) and Dindo Enova showed that these fishermen were already reported missing since Nov. 28, two days before the flooding that inundated seven towns of Camarines Norte.

        The fishermen who were still missing are Ariel Marmol, Mario Geraldo, Allen Villar, Joel Ungog, Jesus “Toton” Pajarin (not Pajaria), Joselito Sanchez, Felix Barba, Jimmy Barba,Edgar Vitalicio, Gerry Balenventor and De Lemios. Reportedly, the fishermen went to sea on separate occasions on Nov. 28 from the towns of Mercedes and Paracale.

        While the rains here continued until Tuesday, eight villages in the towns of Vinzons and Paracale remain isolated because chest-deep water rendered impassable the access road in Barangay Fundado, Labo affecting some 9,000 persons, according to Ferdinand Abejero, Kabalikat-Bicol member.

        Abejero, who went into these areas Tuesday morning, said the barangays of Singi, Matango, Manlupugan and Agiit in Vinzons town and the barangays of Bagacay, Mampango, Dangkalan and Tabas in Paracale totally depend now on relief goods and bottled water to survive.

        Meanwhile the water filtration equipment of the Department of Health (DOH) has arrived here with a capacity to process one cubic meter of water per second. It is complemented with 9 trailer tanks where the processed water would be stocked for distribution, according to William Sabater, regional sanitary engineer of the DOH.

        Sabater said the response of the DOH on the aftermath of flooding is aimed at preventing worst case scenario which is the spread of water-borne disease.

        Arnel Ferrer, PDCC coordinator, said the areas with no potable water because of the busted pipe require at least 5,000 cubic meters of potable water every day.

        Ma. Antonia B.F. Boma, general manager of Camarines Norte Water District (CNWD), through public annoucement assured the affected consumers that water lorries and fire trucks would be deployed in the towns of Daet and Basud to provide potable water to the affected residents.

        Daet Mayor Tito Sarion has declared the suspension of classes Tuesday in elementary and high schools based on Department of Education Order No. 28 series of 2005.

        Sarion said that the suspension of classes would enable the school administration to adjust to the calamity situation in his town where several schools buildings were still occupied by evacuees even though he said many of them except for those who lost their homes to the floods were already returning to their homes.

        Vice Governor Roy Padilla said on Tuesday that the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Camarines Norte was more likely to declare a state of calamity once reports from the towns here reached his office. This, as Gov. Jesus Typoco Jr. has already rejected the idea of declaring the province under a state of calamity.

        In the Sports Center at the Capitol Compound here some 19 families in Daet town who lost their homes to the flood are temporarily sheltered.

        Jennifer Salvador, 14, who was living in a house along the river in this town, recalled the water started to rise at about 9:00 a.m. Nov. 30 and by 1:00 p.m. the houses were already swept by the raging floods of the swollen river.

        Salvador said she was not able to save their belongings because she said she had to bring her younger siblings to safer ground so that when she tried to return to their house it was too late because their house was already swept away by the flood.

        Marlene Ocquilda, 50, said they thought the water would not rise high because there was no typhoon. But flashfloods soon swept their house. She said there were snakes everywhere which prevented them to come back to their houses.

        Elsie Caballero, 23, said that they have not saved anything but the clothes on their backs and that they don’t know what to do next.