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Extra Canadian flu vaccines sent abroad
Toronto :: Canada | 26 days ago
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If a terrorist attack, massive flood or other major disaster strikes, the federal government is unprepared to lead a co-ordinated emergency response, Canada's auditor general has found. Extra vaccine for the H1N1 virus has been exported from Canada to...
Tags: Canada, auditor general, Saskatchewan, terrorist attack, massive flood, h1n1 virus, major disaster, extra vaccine, federal government, disaster strikes
NBC 48 Huntsville (WAFF): 7 Tenn counties declared major disaster areas
Nashville :: TN :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility Seven West and Middle Tennessee counties have been declared major disaster areas by President Barack Obama because of storms and flooding in late January. Obama ordered federal aid to supplement state and local efforts in Dyer, Henry, Lake, Montgomery,...
Tags: Barack Obama, major disaster
Beshear urges resourcefulness
Frankfort :: KY :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility But Kentuckians from west to east responded with courage, resiliency and concern for their neighbors," Beshear said in his second State of the Commonwealth Message before a joint session of the General Assembly. "My friends, they have the right to expect...
Tags: Northern Kentucky, Kentucky Utilities, Kentucky Equine Education Project, Steve Beshear, ice storm, Barack Obama, major disaster, local governments, federal governments, White House
Thaw comes slowly to storm-ravaged Kentucky
Louisville :: KY :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility Ky. (AP) — Thousands of National Guard troops swinging chainsaws cut their way into remote communities Sunday to reach residents stranded by a deadly ice storm, freeing some to get out of their driveways for the first time in nearly a week. The soldiers...
Tags: Entire Kentucky National Guard, Kentucky Pantries, Central Kentucky, Kentucky Department of Education, ice storms, Steve Beshear, major disaster, Birmingham Area Command
TSX pulls back as oil, gold retreat
Baton Rouge :: LA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Tumbling prices for oil and gold helped send stocks in Toronto into retreat in trading on Tuesday. The S&P/TSX composite index was off more than 266 points at 13,505 at 10:50 a.m...The gold sub-index was off more than five per cent as the September futures...
Tags: gustav, oil price, Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, storm, major disaster, TSX, Gulf of Mexico, delivery fell, oil futures
FEMA rejects benefits for fishermen
Portland :: OR :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility The Bush administration on Friday rejected Oregon's request for unemployment benefits to coastal fishermen idled by the closure of the commercial salmon season. The Federal Emergency Management Agency sent a letter to Gov. Ted Kulongoski saying the closure...
Tags: Federal Emergency Management Agency, salmon fishermen, Oregon, commercial salmon, Ted Kulongoski, major disaster, disaster declaration
Illinois declared a 'major disaster' area
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility The federal declaration covers 13 counties, yet Gov. Rod Blagojevich has declared 24 counties along the Mississippi River state disaster areas. The counties that have been declared state disaster areas but are not included in the federal declaration include...
Tags: disaster area, major disaster
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