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(SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico) — Folks in a southern Puerto Rico city found a warehouse crammed with water, cots and other unused emergency offers, then instructed a social media uproar Saturday after they broke in to retrieve items as the placement struggles to recover from a solid earthquake.
With anger spreading within the U.S. territory after video of the match in Ponce seemed on Facebook, Gov. Wanda Vázquez like a flash fired the director of the island’s emergency administration company.
The governor talked about she had ordered an investigation after studying the emergency offers had been piled within the warehouse since Storm Maria battered Puerto Rico in September 2017.
Vázquez talked about utter of no process by the fired legit, Carlos Acevedo, used to be unacceptable.
“There are millions of of us which obtain made sacrifices to relieve those within the south, and it is unforgivable that sources had been stored within the warehouse,” the governor talked about.
Puerto Rico’s secretary of utter, Elmer Román, told reporters that Acevedo had no longer told him in regards to the contents of the warehouse.
News of the warehouse unfold after on-line blogger Lorenzo Delgado relayed dwell video on Facebook of of us breaking into the building. The scene was chaotic on occasion as of us pushed their are available in and started distributing water, toddler meals and other items to those tormented by the earthquake.
Delgado later told reporters that he had got a tip in regards to the warehouse, nonetheless gave no specifics on when.
The mayor of Ponce, María Meléndez, talked about he had no longer identified in regards to the warehouse and its contents.
“Right here is nasty,” she talked about. “All americans is aware of what us mayors went by after Storm Maria to dangle a discover at and salvage relieve to our cities and how we’ve worked these weeks to supply total offers to of us tormented by earthquakes. These involved owe us an clarification.”
Inés Rivera, spokeswoman for town of Ponce, told The Associated Press that the warehouse is owned by Puerto Rico’s Company of Commerce and Export. Officers with the company may possibly presumably no longer be reached for remark.
The data upset many in Puerto Rico already angry over the authorities’s botched response to Storm Maria, with identical incidents of offers going unused being uncovered months later.
Ponce is considered one of a lot of cities within the island’s southern put hit by the latest 6.4 magnitude earthquake that killed one particular person and introduced about extra than an estimated $200 million in ache. Larger than 7,000 of us dwell in shelters for the reason that quake.
The governor talked about she has sent the Senate her nomination of José Reyes, who oversees the Nationwide Guard in Puerto Rico, to be the recent commissioner for the Affirm Bureau for Emergency Administration and Ache Administration.
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