He had joined seven others in signing an open letter to residents of the disaster area.
In 1995, I was a volunteer in the disaster area following the Great Hanshin Earthquake in Kobe, Japan.
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Hitoshi works for Polaris Images, a New York photo agency, and has spent the last several days in the disaster area.
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There were reports that army-led rescue workers had difficulty accessing the disaster area and were hampered by a lack of equipment.
Affiliate with existing non-profit organizations before coming to the disaster area.
"There is no specific designation outside of a disaster period that says we have to have sustained properties going to the disaster area, " Wiggins said.
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Some 20, 000 soldiers and police arrived at the disaster area to help with the relief effort, and 30, 000 more were on the way, the Defense Ministry told Xinhua.
The disaster area is even divided into five named districts.
"The Marcal river is dead, " said Tibor Dobson, spokesman of the Hungarian Disaster Management Agency - a reference to a smaller river which flows north from the disaster area towards the Danube.
While President Obama said Thursday that the federal government is in charge of the disaster area, they have no answers in stopping the leak, and they are relying on BP and their expertise to get this done.
To summarize the Proposed Project aims at alleviating poverty through craft enterprise development in 2 villages in District Bahawalpur, one of which is located in the Disaster area of Cholistan and thus also aims at mitigating risk of fragile communities and supporting alternate means of livelihood to conserve water resources.
"We are on the cusp, really, of that full-speed rebuild, " he said from the high-rise city council building near the downtown disaster area.
Earlier, officials in Prague declared about a third of the country a disaster area, and several border crossings with Poland and Germany were closed.
Health risks in the disaster-ridden area are seemingly everywhere, from diarrhea-causing organisms in the water now to snakes that could have been driven out by the water and may be more likely to bite people.
In the Haute-Pyrenees departement of France, there is anger that the area has been excluded from France's officially-designated disaster area, reducing the aid available to farmers.
Likewise, those threatened by Floyd might ask if Bill Clinton would have declared even before the storm arrived much of the east coast a disaster area, thus guaranteeing lots of federal assistance, if the next presidential election campaign had not started.
The concept should then lead to the development of maps to be technically specified and made available to the selected end-users who will have to test the products and deploy them in order to achieve higher societal benefits in the area of disaster risk prevention and reduction.
Texas Governor Rick Perry earlier said he was declaring the area a disaster and would request an emergency declaration for federal aid from President Barack Obama, who has offered any help needed.
Texas state Governor Rick Perry said he was declaring the area a disaster and would request an emergency declaration for federal aid from US President Barack Obama, who has apparently offered any help needed.
However, if the loss is in a federally declared disaster area, you may choose to treat the loss as having occurred in the year immediately preceding the tax year in which the disaster happened by filing an amended return.
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Miyazaki visited the tsunami-hit area of northeast Japan four months after the disaster to screen his films to local children.
They are also victims of the disaster because they live in the area and have lost homes and family members.
President Clinton toured parts of the area and offered federal disaster relief.
Bearing the brunt of the disaster was Vargas state, an area with a population of 350, 000, an hour's drive from the capital, Caracas.
The loss includes 400bn yen put aside by Tepco to compensate victims of the disaster, which forced 80, 000 people to be evacuated from the area around the Fukushima plant.
When disaster strikes, contractors flood the area to cash in on the rebuilding effort.
Children who live in an area affected by the Chernobyl disaster have visited Warwick Castle as part of a UK holiday.
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol asked motorists to steer clear of Interstate 35 near Moore to free up lanes for disaster response resources streaming into the area.
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Additionally, affected taxpayers in a federally declared disaster area may be able to claim a casualty loss related to the disaster on a federal income tax return.
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