The ARF VDR

The Asean Regional Forum’s Voluntary Demonstration of Response, a multi-lateral exercise involving 20 ARF member countries, begins on May 4 and will last until May 8. The exercise scenario is a super typhoon hitting a land mass, killing people and destroying infrastructure. The Philippines — the country hit by the typhoon — asks for help and ARF members respond.

Killing people

I can’t go out right now, I have to kill some people.

Typhoon Frank is out there flooding towns and villages, lashing at the farms, whipping up waves at sea. A ferry sank off Romblon province, and hundreds are missing. As a reporter, it is part of my job to find out how many people are dead, missing, and homeless.