LEGAZPI CITY: The Office of Civil Defense in Bicol ordered the decampment of Mayon evacuees in the nine-kilometer (km) extended danger zone (EDZ) to decongest the evacuation camps to avoid a possible outbreak of diseases here.

Claudio Yucot, OCD regional director and Regional Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council chairman, directed the decampment of evacuees residing outside the eight-km EDZ in accordance with the Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Institute of Volcanoly and Seismology (DoST-Phivolcs) protocol and bulletin alert level 4.