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What the government gave is a pittance. To reconstruct my home I need about 200,000 rupees. Now because of the quake I cannot work in my farms. The choice is between going hungry and making a house. So we decided to spend as little on the house and keep the rest for emergency rations.

What is this emergency act all about? Is it another name for martial law?

We try to determine the need for clothes, shoes, food, shelter and medical items. We are working very hard to take care of the emergency needs of the families that have been displaced.

We are certainly pleased by the president's actions and look forward to working with FEMA (Federal Emergency management Agency) to get assistance going to the home and business owners hardest hit by the storms.

We felt that put the mentally impaired in Williamson County in jeopardy and we felt it was an emergency and we needed to do something about it,

We expect more states to require us to sell emergency contraceptives in the months ahead. Because of this, and the fact that this is an FDA-approved product, we feel it is difficult to justify being the country's only major pharmacy chain not selling it.

We're very grateful for their participation. We want to raise the profile so people know the importance of moving to the right and yielding to emergency vehicles.

We're vehemently opposed for the simple reason that it's no one's right or prerogative to deny emergency communications to go through. That's why jamming is illegal. These are the public airwaves - they are for everyone, and everyone has a right to use them.

Toward the end of the trip, a Wisconsin church group asked us if we could send some people on an emergency basis to help finish off the field reconstruction. That night the town teams were scheduled to play their first games since the hurricane and the rebuilding effort was running behind.

This new rescue car and crew will provide enhanced emergency medical service and augment the overall response capabilities to the residents of New Tampa,

We think that the emergency is that FGUA has permitted too many hook-ups. I think it's an overcapacity issue.

There have been deadly outbreaks of waterborne diseases and in every emergency of this type you're always looking to prevent that second wave of diseases, which adds to the tragedy.

We are an advocacy organization on behalf of hospitals. Overnight we turned into a hospital emergency center.

We want children to be out on the playground where they belong, not inside the emergency hospital room, ... CPSC is taking steps to reduce the hazards of home playgrounds by working with industry to recall defective play sets and strengthen playground safety standards.

We have emergency responders responding to these kinds of calls. They're risking their lives out there every day in emergency traffic to extinguish fires that have been set.

We have emergency orders placed with our vendors for clean-up supplies.

We have done everything medically we could do. We have doctors trained in emergency medicine, in heart problems and other specialties standing by at every game. It's not just internists. It's people who know what to do in every emergency. It just wasn't enough.

We have declared a state of emergency there.

We do not really know what our firefighters, police officers, emergency workers and others have been exposed to, ... But it is our responsibility to find those answers.

Both governors and every commissioner are responsible. This is not necessarily a money emergency because people are crossing the bridges, paying their tolls and the bills are being paid. But bond markets do not look favorably on unpredictable, unreliable, politically driven decisions. Government organizations are created to pass budgets and meet bond covenants. To do otherwise is irresponsible.

Being an emergency manager and getting a call from the National Hurricane Center director on a cell phone at night is one of the most tense experiences you could ever go through. He just wanted to give me a heads up.

Everything had to be debated up, down and sideways. People were good, they came to understandings and agreements. But it was all done on a wing and a prayer and negotiations. In an emergency .Ê.Ê. there may be circumstances where you can't have debate for days on end.

Even normal rains won't bring dead livestock back to life in the north or provide an immediate harvest in the east. There is no quick fix to this emergency after five consecutive poor seasons.

Everything's in place that needs to be in place. We're keeping in touch with emergency management to see what the path is supposed to do.

As I told one parent, we appreciate the generosity, but every drop of fuel that we put in a bus is fuel that could have gone in an ambulance or emergency vehicle trying to help the relief effort. Now, as we look at the news in the newspaper and on television of what's going on, to imagine an ambulance trying to help those people might run out of fuel because we're running the chess team over to Colleton County, well, to us it highlights some priorities.

At that time, Attleboro Police also got a call from Sturdy Memorial Hospital about a man in the emergency room with stab wounds.

At the moment, we're giving out a lot of assistance, but it's emergency assistance, like paying bills at hospitals, first aid, and blankets. It has to be organized so we can do it in a structured way.

Credit cards offer convenience. Credit cards offer emergency life preservers. If you start to use your credit card for daily expenses, and you start paying for pizza at 18 percent interest -- do the math.

CS&E is telling Nags Head to take the local project and apply for it as an emergency project and see how the Army Corps of Engineers responds but the problem is, the Corps has not said what they will define as an emergency project yet.

Crooks move into disaster areas almost as quickly as relief workers do, ... These scammers will run every kind of rip-off, from conning people into signing over emergency benefits to signing usurious loans to fronting construction work that's never begun.

County, state and federal funding is down, patient needs have reached an all time high as the nation's poorest are unable to obtain health care insurance, and emergency medicine physicians are struggling to keep up with patient demand, especially in the absence of compensation.

And with forecasters suggesting that the April rains will also be poor, the number of families needing assistance could grow in the coming months. Without adequate emergency food aid, we fear for the worst.

Emergency workers from around the world began showing up immediately after the storm.

Emergency supplies have been sent to the refugees including rice and noodles, and they will be treated by paramedics as needed.

Emergency sheltering has to come to an end at some point.

Emergency service agencies can request that information from us. We will provide a list of the top 25 hazardous materials we transport so they can be better prepared to respond to emergencies.

Emergency responders typically look at new equipment with a little bit of cynicism. You can imagine how much equipment is touted as 'solving all of their problems,'

Emergency management officials, law enforcement officials and public health officials might reassess how well those plans are designed to deal with those populations,

Emergency management is in such a state of disarray right now that it could take a couple of years.

Emergency management at the Federal level will be greatly enhanced by adopting a bottom-up strategy that helps local governments be more effective.

Emergency departments and ER doctors will take it on the chin. And follow-up care would be difficult for those patients to obtain, especially those without insurance.

Emergency cases are always accepted. The ambulance knows they can bring people here. There is full senior staffing on all emergency department shifts and we have put on additional nursing staff and additional administration staff.

Drought need not be a death sentence for children living in affected communities. We can save thousands of lives if we can get the emergency health, nutrition, water and sanitation interventions to them before it is too late.

Drought and other natural disasters continue to plague many of America's farmers, ... USDA is working to provide needed assistance and emergency loans for farmers during these tough times.

Equipment vendors and service providers understand the need to improve their emergency services. But time, money and effort will need to be expended in order to deliver those enhancements.

Fishnets aims to make a major impact on improving quality of life for older people across the county - increasing the number of people who can be helped to live at home, while reducing the need for emergency hospital treatment.

FedEx can track a package around the world anywhere, real time. The Federal Emergency Management Agency should be able to do the same with ice, water and food.

FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) is too white to represent us and so is the Red Cross, so we're going to demand our place at the table,

Everything we do in emergency services is a calculated risk,

There was a big crash. There was a lot of debris. It sounded like we hit a trash can. We came to a stop, then all the emergency lights came on.

There's some emergency shortcuts if there's a life in jeopardy. Our protection of our customer information is paramount.

The resignation of Gloria is the solution to the crisis, not emergency powers to the usurper of the presidency,

The residents saw a need for some type of emergency response.

There's no reason for people to be on township roads when we're in a state of emergency unless they live out there.

There's no need to panic about this, ... On the other side, there's no reason for retailers to just jack up the price because everybody's concerned. We're going to move very quickly to stop that if we have the legal ability to do so without passing emergency legislation.

The top priority overall is tents and emergency shelter. We need helicopters, a lot of helicopters and all types of helicopters.

Is there a price that is too expensive for open heart surgery, because that is what we've got here? We've got a terminally ill patient presented in the emergency room with life-threatening injuries.

I spoke to the deputy commissioner of the Maine Department of Transportation, Greg Nadeau. I feel this is significant enough to be put on emergency status.

It would be kind of like when they put through a substantial emergency rate cut when the market crashed in 1987. I don't think it is evidence of panic to treat what happened yesterday as an emergency. It's an emergency on many levels.

They are a great benefit to the department. They free up police officers to do other work. And, they help facilitate the use of emergency rooms and medical procedures. They help us through that process. They help out teens and children and they have avenues to mental illness and crisis counseling resources.

The whole thing in the emergency services is that if you don't get to the fire or arrive at the hospital in one piece you're not going to do anyone any good.

The roads are treacherous not only for the people who are trying to get back and forth from their homes but also for the emergency personnel, ... We're being very cautious on what we send them out on, whether it's something that can wait or whether it's something that really has to be dealt with right away.

The right thing to do now is a national emergency government, even if it takes three or four days to set up. I repeat my call today for all the party leaders to prepare to enter such a government.

I've not seen anything like this before - the faxes, e-mails, telephone calls - in terms of an emergency, ... We are getting resources together and getting that information to the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency (PEMA).

The state of emergency will remain in effect until such time that we are sure that the threats are contained.

The state of emergency was simply a political gesture which showed the government prefers a law-and-order response to the problem.

The state of emergency in this country is critical. If it were a patient, we'd be putting it in the ICU.

The state had a responsibility under the emergency operations plan to evacuate these folks.

The situation is quite grim. With the money we have already, and much of it obtained from our own internal emergency reserves, we can keep the helicopters running for one week.

the single largest mobilization of emergency response and recovery resources in history.

The Senate has acted to provide the funds necessary to continue federal relief efforts. The Senate will likely adopt other emergency appropriations measures as needed to meet future needs as reliable estimates are developed.

The soundness of the emergency preparedness plans for the area surrounding the plant has always been a top-level concern in my district, ... And I'm sorry to say that confidence in the plans is not nearly as strong as it should be and with good reason.

I've never called for an emergency but I bought one for myself. It's not something that's physical condition related.

So often, young people don't know when to quit drinking, ... They end up in the emergency room getting their stomachs pumped.

Ten or 20 years ago, employers would allow volunteers to leave the workplace to respond to an emergency or to receive training. Today, this is no longer the case.

Sometimes the emergency is such that the person can't leave their home ... to get any type of help. It's definitely critical and I know everybody is working on it to get the lines up and running.

Rudy Giuliani didn't come from an emergency preparedness background, but he did an extraordinary job, ... So (past experience) is not necessarily a predictor.

Runway 19 opened for emergency services at about 1:10 p.m. Central.

Right now were under contract from our supplier so were not so much worried about the price as we are the availability, ... Well have to talk to all our departments about conserving and the emergency vehicles, there will be gas held back for them. We may not be cutting grass as much.

Right now, we're just trying to get an area out of the emergency room and into the recovery room,

Pretty much anybody could walk in off the street and they were in the emergency room. Now there is a barrier between registration and the actual treatment area. We have better control over who and how many family members are in the patient care area.

Presently, we have a hard time just dealing with Friday and Saturday nights, ... Our emergency rooms are jammed, patients wait hours to get into the ER and days to go from the ER to a bed upstairs in our hospitals. That has been true for several years.

Practicing general fire safety and preparing and practicing emergency exit plans are essential to aid in preventing fires and fire fatalities.

San Mateo County has been well equipped with our communication systems for a long time now, ... Emergency services in the Bay Area underwent a lot of changes following the 1991 Oakland fire when they had a lot of communication problems.

Save the Children has made great strides to address the immediate emergency situation, but huge challenges remain. We are mounting an urgent effort to meet the winter-survival needs of earthquake-affected children and their families.

Public health plays a critical role in preparing for and responding to disasters. We must fully incorporate the lifesaving benefits and expertise provided by the public health community into our homeland security and emergency systems.

Reading is the heart of learning, and Illinois and the nation are in the literacy emergency room showing a flat line on the education EKG. The state's results clearly demonstrate that we still are not doing what is needed to help these older students build the reading skills they will need to deal with increasingly complex high school courses.

Ramon, before he got hurt, was tops in baseball as far as what he did behind the plate and beside it. To have those two guys and me as an emergency guy is going to be pretty good.

Properly designed and planned, a 1,000-square-foot house can meet a family's needs perfectly, whether it is permanent or emergency housing.

Probably the most important thing in developing an emergency plan for the agricultural operation is to include the family and employees in the process. By helping to develop the plan, the other family members and employees take more ownership in making the plan work and in helping think of ways to protect the business. After all, everyone is affected if an emergency or disaster causes a disruption in operations, even if it's only for a week or two.

Privacy was the number one issue. We now have individual registration rooms, a room for a financial counselor and separate rooms in the emergency room.

Our emergency preparedness is always an ongoing priority. We're constantly working on it at the Clinic and drills like these help us work even closer with the emergency agencies to build a closer, more effective relationship.

Our customers and associates have always responded generously to help those in need, particularly when disaster has struck our local communities. Every contribution will help the Red Cross provide emergency assistance to the victims of this devastating storm.

Our evidence is more consistent. We're trained to collect evidence, so they're probably getting better evidence than an emergency room where they don't collect the same type of evidence.

People don't want to be held hostage by the fuel companies, and in an emergency situation, if all else fails, they could find a piece of wood to heat the house.

People go to emergency rooms for anything from an earache to a heart attack, and the bill from the ER doctor could be just about any amount you could imagine. If, for instance, the bill for the ER doctor was $1,000, the UMP enrollee might have to pay up to $300 more than they would have under full coverage.

or to an additional reasonable time if necessary under an emergency or in other extraordinary circumstances.

Offering Packet8 subscribers an effective and reliable E911 solution has always been a priority for 8x8, as evidenced by our pioneering role in being the first VoIP service provider to offer true, replacement enhanced 911 services to our subscribers beginning in June 2004, more than a year ahead of the FCC's actions, ... We selected TCS because of its years of demonstrated expertise in wireless E911. This selection will provide Packet 8 subscribers with access to the most advanced E911 technologies available. Our subscribers can expect to receive the same response to a 911 call placed on their Packet8 service as calls made from a PSTN line, no matter where their emergency calls are placed in the U.S.

Oftentimes it's people's pets. Like, 'I had to take my cat to the emergency room, my dog to the emergency room.

North Carolina's emergency preparedness system is one of the best in the nation. North Carolina's emergency management team has been very proactive and this is yet another means for them to solidify our and planning preparation.