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ENSIMMÄINEN VIRALLINEN RAPORTTI tuhoista 4:30 TÄNÄÄN KESKIVIIKKONA Dominikan aikaa.
Tästä muutamia asioita:
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Kuolleita todettu 7.
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Vahingoittuneista ei mitään raprottia vielä.
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Asukasluku noin 72 000.
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Materiaalinen vaurio suuri.
Pahimmia
silmiinpistäviä vaurioita: kattojen repeytyminen irti useasta
talosta. ( Lentäneitä esineitä pitkin ja poikin dokumenttifilmien
mukaan) .
Monesta
turvapaikkana toimineestakin tilasta katosi katto myrskyn myötä.
(Myös sairaalasta jo alikuvaiheessa)
Kattomateriaalin tarve on kiireellistä (
Dominikassa sataa usein) .
Sivukylistä on
tultu jalkaisinpääkaupunkiin uutisia tuomaan ja kerrotaan kokonaan
tuhoutuneista taloista, sadosta ja joistain maanteistä. Muuta kontaktia
sivukyliin ei ole ollut vielä. Tänään pääministeri menee
katsomaan tialnnetta.
Vesijohtoputket
katkeilleet, juomavedestä puute kaupungissa.
Kommunikaatiotornit
luhistuneet maassa ja kommunikaatiot aluksi poikki.
(Oli Ham-
kommunikaatiota, viranomaisten kesken oli jotain intrakommunikaatiota
maassa. ja yliopistossa hotline US:han Kanadaan , sekä oli amatööriradiota maassa)
Tämä tieto
välittyy satelliittipuhelimen kautta pääministerin
neuvonantajalta Hartley Henry.
Kaukaisempiin
alueisiin tarvitaan suojapaikoissa oleville helikopterin välittämiä
avustulentoja: ruokaa, kattomateriaalia, juomavettä –
pudottamalla. ( Dominikassa on luonnon vesiä, mutta moni niistä
on vulkaanista vettä) .
Asuntonsa
menettäneet tarvitsevat myös vuodevaatteita väestösuojiin.
Canefield-
kenttä on halikopterien käytettävissä. Filmeissä siinä
oli vettä paikoitellen.
Roseaun edustalla
olevass satamassa on nyt melko tyyntä, jotta siihen voi
laivatkin rantautua tuomaan avustutarvikkeita. ( Turistien isot
alukset ankkkuroivat kaus maasta ja sieltä tuodaan veneillä väki
rantaan. Tällä hetkellä ei ole näitä isoja laivoja lähistöllä
ainakaan filmin perusteella).
Melvillen kenttä
ei saanut tässä yhteydeesä pahoja vaurioita ja on pian
käytettävissä myös lenotkuljetuksiin.
Sähköt eivät toimi.
Suojina toimivat kaikki saatavilla olevat viralliset rakennukset.
Dominica Hurricane Maria Disaster Relief är på Dominica
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tim ·
A message from Hartley Henry, Principal Advisor to Prime Minister
Roosevelt
Skerrit:
It's 4:30am and I Just Spoke with Prime Minister Skerrit via Satellite phone. He and family are fine. Dominica is not!! Tremendous loss of Housing and Public buildings. The main general hospital took a beating. Patient care has been compromised. Many buildings serving as shelters lost roofs, which means that a very urgent need now is tarpaulins and other roofing materials. Little contact has been made with the outer communities but persons who walked 10 and 15 miles towards the city of Roseau from various outer districts report total destruction of homes, some roadways and crops.
Urgent helicopter services are needed to take food, water and tarpaulins to outer districts for shelter. Canefield airport can accommodate helicopter landings and it is expected that from today, the waters around the main Roseau port will be calm enough to accommodate vessels bringing relief supplies and other forms of assistance.
It's difficult to determine the level of fatalities but so far seven are confirmed, as a direct result of the hurricane. That figure, the Prime Minister fears, will rise as he wades his way into the rural communities today, Wednesday. The urgent needs now are roofing materials for shelters, bedding supplies for hundreds stranded in or outside what's left of their homes and food and water drops for residents of outlying districts inaccessible at the moment.
The tarmac at Mellville Hall was not too badly damaged so the strip should be opened in a day or two for larger relief planes to land. The Prime Minister is hoping to make contact with ABS Radio in Antigua this morning to speak directly to the outer world as to the state of Dominica and its urgent needs.
The country is in a daze - no electricity, no running water - as a result of uprooted pipes in most communities and definitely to landline or cellphone services on island, and that will be for quite a while.
In summary, the island has been devastated. The housing stock significantly damaged or destroyed. All available public buildings are being used as shelters; with very limited roofing materials evident. The country needs the support and continued help and prayers of all. Will update further as new information is received.
It's 4:30am and I Just Spoke with Prime Minister Skerrit via Satellite phone. He and family are fine. Dominica is not!! Tremendous loss of Housing and Public buildings. The main general hospital took a beating. Patient care has been compromised. Many buildings serving as shelters lost roofs, which means that a very urgent need now is tarpaulins and other roofing materials. Little contact has been made with the outer communities but persons who walked 10 and 15 miles towards the city of Roseau from various outer districts report total destruction of homes, some roadways and crops.
Urgent helicopter services are needed to take food, water and tarpaulins to outer districts for shelter. Canefield airport can accommodate helicopter landings and it is expected that from today, the waters around the main Roseau port will be calm enough to accommodate vessels bringing relief supplies and other forms of assistance.
It's difficult to determine the level of fatalities but so far seven are confirmed, as a direct result of the hurricane. That figure, the Prime Minister fears, will rise as he wades his way into the rural communities today, Wednesday. The urgent needs now are roofing materials for shelters, bedding supplies for hundreds stranded in or outside what's left of their homes and food and water drops for residents of outlying districts inaccessible at the moment.
The tarmac at Mellville Hall was not too badly damaged so the strip should be opened in a day or two for larger relief planes to land. The Prime Minister is hoping to make contact with ABS Radio in Antigua this morning to speak directly to the outer world as to the state of Dominica and its urgent needs.
The country is in a daze - no electricity, no running water - as a result of uprooted pipes in most communities and definitely to landline or cellphone services on island, and that will be for quite a while.
In summary, the island has been devastated. The housing stock significantly damaged or destroyed. All available public buildings are being used as shelters; with very limited roofing materials evident. The country needs the support and continued help and prayers of all. Will update further as new information is received.
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