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Salceda said the police and military will block 12 gateways to 56 villages within the danger zone to enforce the round-the-clock curfew on the area, which will remain until scientists lower the volcano alert by one level. Salceda also said the provincial government has borrowed a helicopter that could fly "nightly patrols" around the volcano. The evacuees, mostly poor farmers and laborers, will spend Christmas at evacuation centers. At the Bagumbayan Central School in Legazpi, the provincial capital, Guilly Anonuevo, a 75-year-old veteran of five evacuations, will spend Christmas for the first time in an evacuation center. "We do not know where we will get our Christmas dinner. We have no money," she said. "It's all right to be sad as long as we are safe from Mayon's eruption."
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