Bay Area Provides Aid To East Coast In Aftermath Of Sandy
After superstorm Sandy made landfall Monday evening and continued to wreak havoc along the Eastern Seaboard from Virginia to Massachusetts, the Bay Area is responding to the natural disaster.
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After superstorm Sandy made landfall Monday evening and continued to wreak havoc along the Eastern Seaboard from Virginia to Massachusetts, the Bay Area is responding to the natural disaster.
Romney was asked at a presidential debate whether FEMA should be shut down in light of the deficit. Romney replied that FEMA should "absolutely" be shut down. He was asked specifically if that included disaster relief. He replied that it was "immoral" to provide such relief in the face of "larger debts", emphasizing that "it makes no sense at all" to have such programs.
Staff and volunteers from the Bay Area, Silicon Valley, and Santa Cruz chapters of the Red Cross have been sent out to the East Coast but many more are waiting for flights to be allowed into the area.
A second-alarm fire in an Alameda apartment building displaced 15 residents early Wednesday morning, according to a fire captain.
Dozens of Bay Area volunteers have been in the southern U.S. for more than a week assisting those affected by Hurricane Isaac, a Red Cross spokeswoman said Friday.
Fourteen households displaced by Tuesday's water main break in San Francisco's Visitacion Valley neighborhood were being allowed to go home Wednesday, a spokeswoman for the city's Public Utilities Commission said.
Hurricane Isaac made landfall Tuesday evening in southeast Louisiana. Sixty-one Bay Area volunteers with the American Red Cross were dispatched to the Gulf Coast on Tuesday to assist those affected.
A fire in an Antioch apartment building left 21 residents displaced Monday afternoon, a fire dispatcher said.
Alameda County firefighters responded to a second alarm fire at an apartment building which displaced 20 residents in Newark late Monday night, a fire dispatcher said.
San Jose firefighters responded to three fires overnight, two of which have been deemed suspicious, fire officials said.
The fire appears to have started in the garage area of the 38-unit building on Linda Avenue.
A one-alarm fire at a Daly City home Friday night displaced two people from their home, according to the North County Fire Authority.
Several others were displaced in the three-alarm fire on Inverness Drive.
She was inspired at least in part by an event in her own life: When she was 17 months old, she was run over by a car and suffered a collapsed lung and a severed liver, and needed blood transfusions
Families are still trying to recover from this week's fire in San Francisco's Western Addition neighborhood that displaced 41 people.
More than 40 people have been displaced by a five-alarm fire that damaged three buildings near San Francisco's Alamo Square on Thursday.
No injuries were reported in a fast-moving 3-alarm fire Saturday that displaced at least 12 residents of an apartment complex in Alameda.
The cause of the fire is still being investigated.
A three-alarm fire on Saturday night destroyed several units at Village Green Apartments on Homestead Road.
American Red Cross volunteers from the Bay Area have headed to the East Coast to assist with disaster relief efforts as Hurricane Irene approaches.
A three-alarm fire in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood, displacing as many as 26 residents Monday morning.
Bay Area charities encouraged people to donate money to assist the response to a devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck off the northeast coast of Japan on Thursday night.
Survivors of the San Bruno pipeline explosion gathered near the blast site Wednesday to mark six months since eight people lost their lives and dozens of homes were damaged or completely destroyed in the inferno.
Fire crews were investigating the cause of an apartment fire in Belmont early Tuesday that injured six people and displaced dozens of other residents.
The International Federation of the Red Cross is calling for a dramatic change in the way governments deal with people who inject drugs.
