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Two Gardner electric employees, Josh Smith and Dylan Irby, recently helped with hurricane relief restoring electrical power in Orlando, Fla. Photo courtesy of the City of Gardner Two employees from the city's electric division traveled to Florida to assist in hurricane relief efforts.
"Saturday Night Live" didn't waste any time going after President Donald Trump and the comments he made on Saturday regarding hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico. The 43rd season premiere of the NBC sketch series opened with Alec Baldwin's Trump speaking on the phone with San Juan Mayor Carmen Yuln Cruz, who was played by Melissa Villaseor.
I was stunned as I walked through the darkened and humid arrivals terminal at San Juan's International Airport two days after Hurricane Maria blasted its way across Puerto Rico. It was quiet.
The U.S. military visited the city of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, as the area is dealing with massive damage to buildings and homes, as well as electrical and water infrastructure, from Hurricane Maria. Other US agencies like the Coast Guard, FEMA, Red Cross, the Puerto Rican Emergency Management Agency and Puerto Rican police are also making their way through Humacao, Puerto Rico, bringing aid, meals and water with them.
BOSTON: Two weeks after Hurricane Irma hit Southern Florida, ten fuel trucks from New England are on their way home after working with FEMA in both the Texas and Florida restoration efforts. When the trucks were requested to head to Florida, Massachusetts-based fuel distributor Dennis K. Burke, Inc. already had trucks working with FEMA in Texas.
San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz made her message clear on her black shirt that read: "Help Us, We Are Dying." "People are drinking out of creeks here in San Juan," she told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Friday night.
A Disaster Recovery Center will open Sunday, Oct. 1, in Monroe County to help Florida storm survivors. The DRC will be open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. seven days a week until further notice.
The latest is the one that President Donald Trump declared Aug. 10: "The opioid crisis is an emergency, and I am saying, officially, right now, it is an emergency. It's a national emergency.
Thousands of Puerto Ricans were finally getting water and food rations Friday as an aid bottleneck began to ease, but many remained cut off from the basic necessities of life and were desperate for power, communications and other trappings of normality in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. There were many people across the island, especially outside the capital, unable to get water, gas or generator fuel.
Ten days after Hurricane Maria began to crash into Puerto Rico as a Category 4 storm, the island is dealing with a humanitarian crisis as millions remain without electricity and water, and limited access to gas and cash. The majority of the US commonwealth is without power, with the exception of people and facilities using generators, the US Energy Department says.
FEMA's religious discrimination is a disaster FEMA is not helping houses of worship rebuild after natural disasters. Check out this story on northjersey.com: https://njersy.co/2k9vFm0 Over 2,000 people lined up in San Juan, Puerto Rico Thursday to try and board the Royal Caribbean ship "Adventure of the Seas."
President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Friday morning to defend his administration's handling of the crisis in Puerto Rico, but left questions as to how the recovery efforts will be financed. "Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello just stated: 'The Administration and the President, every time we've spoken, they've delivered......'" he wrote, adding "...The fact is that Puerto Rico has been destroyed by two hurricanes.
Puerto Rico is under a flash flood watch as the agonizing wait for food and supplies continues in the US island after Hurricane Maria hit more than a week ago. Heavy rain is expected through the weekend, which "will aggravate the ongoing recovery and relief efforts," the National Weather Service said.
They live on Puerto Rico's west coast in Aguadilla, which Hurricane Maria pummeled last week. There's no running water, cell service or electricity in the town of about 60,000 people.
Homeland Security Adviser Tom Bossert on Thursday defended the Trump administration's response to the devastation in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, saying "it is my sincere belief that that food and water will get" to suffering residents. "I have no doubt," Bossert told reporters at the White House press briefing.
The Trump administration declared Thursday that its relief efforts in Puerto Rico are succeeding, but people on the island said help was scarce and disorganized while food supplies dwindled in some remote towns eight days after Hurricane Maria devastated the US territory of 3.4 million people. President Donald Trump cleared the way for more supplies to head to Puerto Rico by issuing a 10-day waiver of federal restrictions on foreign ships delivering cargo to the island.
The Trump administration declared Thursday that its relief efforts in Puerto Rico are succeeding, but people on the island said help was scarce and disorganized while food supplies dwindled in some remote towns eight days after Hurricane Maria devastated the U.S. territory of 3.4 million people.
We've just returned from Vieques, a 134-square-mile island off Puerto Rico's eastern coast which suffered harrowing devastation from Hurricane Maria. This once-picturesque island of approximately 9,300 -- known for its secluded beaches, snorkeling and wild horses that roam the countryside -- is now a dream-turned-nightmare: There's no power, no running water, and the hospital was so severely damaged that it has been forced to set up a temporary triage tent outside to treat patients.
Residents of Puerto Rico accused President Donald Trump of being slow to dispatch aid after Hurricane Maria and clumsy in his public remarks once it was clear the U.S. territory had been devastated by the storm. After days of urging, Trump on Thursday temporarily lifted restrictions on foreign shipping from the U.S. mainland to Puerto Rico to move aid more quickly and the Pentagon appointed a senior general to oversee military relief operations.
The Trump administration is restricting lawmakers in both parties from visiting storm-ravaged Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands aboard military aircraft this weekend in order to keep focused on recovery missions there, according to multiple congressional aides. The decision comes as the Pentagon is intensifying its relief efforts on the islands as the U.S. government struggles to respond to devastation caused last week by Hurricane Maria and earlier by Hurricane Irma.