Hurricane Andrew aftermath - WTVJ - Aug. 25 - 11:37 a.m.
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[0:01] experience in terms of dealing with the
[0:03] aftermath of a hurricane uh there's a
[0:06] lot of uh special information a lot of
[0:10] uh red tap that you've got to go through
[0:12] for example can you give us an examples
[0:14] for example you've got to make sure that
[0:16] you totally assess the situation in
[0:18] order to get it di the federal a you've
[0:21] also got to uh understand from a police
[0:24] standpoint what uh kind of problems
[0:27] you're going to face in the field
[0:29] problems in ter terms of just dealing
[0:31] with fatigue being able to relieve
[0:33] officers who may be on data for 24 48
[0:36] Hours um you need to be able to
[0:39] understand the magnitude and the uh you
[0:42] know the total devastation while Andrew
[0:45] was only a third to size of Hugo um is
[0:49] hit a much more heavily populated area a
[0:52] much more heavily built up area so um
[0:56] you're going to need a lot of extra help
[0:59] from Cruise coming in here we we've got
[1:01] in route this afternoon and working with
[1:04] the public works
[1:05] office fre to help with the clearing the
[1:08] roads help with putting up traffic
[1:11] signals help with putting up sign how
[1:13] many people do you have with you
[1:15] how um right now we've got 32 police
[1:18] officers plus myself um I know the South
[1:21] Carolina Electric and Gas sent 110
[1:23] people in here to help for power light
[1:26] uh came in yesterday we've got uh about
[1:29] 15
[1:30] uh to to 20 uh people coming in late
[1:35] tomorrow uh to help with the the debris
[1:38] removal um our commissioners of Public
[1:40] Works Water and Sewer are sending water
[1:43] distribution Personnel um to help with
[1:46] the water distribution needs in the
[1:48] field also electrician