Reply #37: wow.we get 257 National Guard Men

[bluedog]

National Guard enroute from Miami


THE NEWS-PRESS
Published by news-press.com on August 13, 2004


A 257-member National Guard soldier battallion from Miami will be on their way to Southwest Florida tonight as the clean-up from Hurricane Charley gets underway. Their tasks will be assigned once more damage assessments are complete.

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EMS received 34 calls between 3:15 and 6 p.m. Most were personal injuries and car accidents. There were two reports of women giving birth during the storm including one at Germain Arena and one at Dunbar High School shelter.


Hurricane - August 13, 2004 7:03 PM






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Part of roof at Cape Coral Hospital is ripped off

Tornadoes touched off; 60,000 without power in Cape

THE NEWS-PRESS
Published by news-press.com on August 13, 2004


Updated @ 6:12 p.m.


Part of the roof at Cape Coral Hospital has been ripped off, The News-Press has learned. The hospital has lost power.

Cape Coral Hospital lost power, city water and suffered structural damage just past 4 p.m. Friday as Hurricane Charley barreled through the city packing 90 mph wind gusts.

Part of the roof at the hospital’s plant operations building was torn off. But that was an outbuilding and doesn’t affect patients or staff, said hospital spokeswoman Karen Krieger.

The hospital has emergency generators for power and had supplies of water delivered prior to the storm, Krieger said.

The water problem will also affect more than 30,000 customers of the city’s utility system.

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