landing in the courtyard area causing a most gigantic crater being enough to swallow an adult man and some and causing devastation across the whole hospital complex on the inside where we have seen really disasterous levels of damage. scorching, burn damage to the building. miraculously at the moment, local authorities are saying that 17 people were injured. they don t know about any fatalities. the reason for that probably is that most women and children, most civilians in that city have been living under ground for the better part of the week. we were speaking with a young woman separated from her husband and 10-year-old daughter and they had been able to talk to her for the first time in week over a very brief mobile phone call in which they said they were living under ground in some kind of bunker area with many,
after three days lost in the australian bush, an autistic 3-year-old boy was found alive. here is the moment the toddler s family learned he was found. oh, my gosh. cnni nrknn ivan watson picks up moment. reporter: the moment police aircraft spot a missing child after a frightening three-day man hunt. 3-year-old anthony aj spotted sitting on a river bank in the australian bush drinking water. he went missing off his family s property around noon on friday and wasn t found until three days later. hundreds of emergency volunteers joined the search. little aj is reportedly autistic
bush drinking water. he went missing from his family s property noon on friday. and wasn t found until three days later. hundreds of emergency volunteers joined the search. little a.j. is reportedly autistic and nonverbal. he apparently survived three near freezing nights in the plunging temperatures of the australian winter. his exhausted mother says her boy is now home, warm and sleeping off the ordeal. oh, i can t explain it, i m so blessed. i m so happy that he s here. he s with us. he s safe and well and healthy. that s all that matters. that is all that matters. what a resourceful little boy. credit to him as well. that is amazing. oh my goodness. makes me tear up a little bit. hey, jim, thank you for being with us this morning. nice to be with you. it s fun. let s do it again. all right. cnn s coverage continues right now.
In emergency response, localising disaster management has been a time-proven process that entails use of local responders embedded in communities, thereby ensuring faster response and in essence saving more lives and alleviating the suffering of victims. Keying into this, the South-west Zone of the National Emergency Management Agency has kicked off series of trainings for such local actors, writes Chiemelie Ezeobi
One of the challenges emergency responders always face is getting to the scene of any incident in record time. This is not anyway limited to only state emergency responders, as the federal body also battles this anomaly as the issue of timeliness and accessibility have been an impediment, especially for emergency workers.
roofs gone and what not, just just chaos, and and i ve seen a lot of tornado damage, and this is pretty bad. when you see people in the back of pickups, were these people in the hospital, or were these people on their way to the hospital? they were on their way to a hospital and not st. john s. i believe it s freeman hospital. i saw two different pickups trying desperately to meander in and out of traffic, you know, and both of those pickups had what was maybe two emergency volunteers in the bed of the truck, kind of, you know, over them, and both of the pickups had two people in the back. so that s the picture we re looking at right now. my gosh, jamie, that s unbelievable, and you must just stand there wanting to helping people and realizing there s not much you can do. absolutely, you know, and and, you know, i was surprised. we were able to get in and out