New Orleans recognizes Amid floods, looting and health is concerned
Relief efforts in New Orleans on the evacuation of the city, still trapped in the water, amid looting and health fears after Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana and Mississippi.
“Katrina has wiped out two days ago on USA Golf-US and reached as far as Florida, ABBRUCHARBEITEN buildings, trees and floods in the fall of his entourage. Damages were $ 25 billion, and the dead can not be 100, with extensive destruction in Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana.
In New Orleans, the situation has deteriorated since the storm, with 80 percent of the city flooded, Sergeant Frank Coates, a spokesman for the Louisiana State Police, said in a telephone interview from Baton Rouge. For at least one meeting was held, and human beings are looting, focuses on conservation “ Leben”anstatt such activity to stop, “he said.
“ We try to help where we can arrest every crime, of course, but still stranded on the roofs of people on their security is a priority,’’said Nigel Coates. “ We want human beings, because the polluted water.”
Water in New Orleans were still increase as there are at least three breaches in the city dam, authorities were unable to resolve, “he said.
New Orleans, a city of 500000 in a city of 1.3 million people, depend on pumps and levees to keep dry because of its low altitude. Some of the city is more than 20 feet (6 m) under the sea.
Floating Bodies
In parts of the city, which are not water, people began looting and food and clothing stores to register a gun, “said Nigel Coates. One policeman was killed after trying to stop a looter flight, “he said. Coates did not know how was seriously wounded officer. Authorities in the region of New Orleans announced the dawning of a dawn departure of flights to stop, “he said.
Some corpses were floating in New Orleans and fired water to avoid health risks, “said Nigel Coates. There was no official toll for the territory yet, “he said.
Authorities were still rescuing people and roofs have been granted emergency services more than 1900 people stranded.
The health and hygiene problems and supplies, including mineral water, that persons who are not in emergency shelters are an important area of concern”“, Nicholas steel, a spokesman for the Louisiana Security and Emergency Department of Welfare, said in a telephone interview today from Baton Rouge.
Contamination
“ The water supply in the whole city is contaminated,’’said Steel. “ It is service station fuel on the content of toilets for men Mix with water.”Attack rodents, dead animals and diseases, all concerns, he said.
Pumping water in the flooded areas is “ a waste of effort”until violations of levees can be defined, “said Steel. By default, fuel and no power, engineers were struggling with heavy equipment on violations, he added.
The U.S. Coast Guard rescued thousands yesterday in New Orleans, remained in the water of the flooded and 20 feet deep, said the Agency on its website.
At least 50 people died in Harrison County, Mississippi, of which no less than 30 in a residential building collapsed in Biloxi, Mississippi Emergency Management spokesman Jim Pollard said in an interview yesterday.
Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, the dead as high as 80 in Harrison County, in an interview on NBC “ Today’s zeigen”gestern, while the New York Times, quoting an official emergency management, reported that 100 were killed.
Mississippi Devastation
Television images showed, near complete devastation in the cities of Gulfport and Biloxi on the Mississippi coast. There is virtually no buildings in Gulfport, which are not “ substantially damaged,’’said Pollard.
Mississippi rescue teams have dared in search missions in the areas most affected, people in their homes, they need help.
“ Search and recovery teams are going door to door, combing the streets and tries to discover, need help there,”Heath Carpenter, a spokeswoman for the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency, said in an telephone interview.
Several thousands of rescuers has been distributing food, water, ice and medical supplies, as appropriate, “he said. He could not estimate the number of people left.
Curfews were in the coastal counties Harrison, Jackson and Hancock, where a large portion of land is flooded and in Jones County, further north, “he said. The capital of Land, Jackson, who is not in the county of the same name, was also under curfew, and 80 percent of Mississippi, was without electricity, he said, adding that very few” “ Looting had taken place.
The rescue forces prepare to evacuate at least 15000 people had sought refuge from the hurricane in the Superdome in Louisiana, because there were problems, the structure and a hole in the roof, “said Nigel Coates . There were reports of riots in the arena, as bad people stand on the seats, “said Nigel Coates.
“Filthy” Superdome
“ People do not know if their origin is always there when she came out,’’said Nigel Coates. “ It is clear that they are in need and tensions rise up.”
The Superdome’s bathrooms are dirty, kitsch barrel overflowed and the air conditioning off since power stopped, if the storm was August 29, the Associated Press reported yesterday. Désespéré by air, dozens of refugees were sleeping on the sidewalk around the dome, said AP.
More than 1.4 million customers were without electricity in Louisiana late yesterday in Florida Panhandle, against more than 2.1 million early in the day, according to estimates by Entergy Corp., Cleco Corp. and Southern Co., parents of supply companies in Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. The estimates were in the reports on websites.
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