but this morning, like i say, as of last night, people that were not a member of the law enforcement ems or fire community, we withheld sending them outdoing the emergency work. now that that is finished, we can utilize a lot of this help in the private sector. we can t assume the responsibility that we don t know what training people have. so that s been the probably the hardest part of managing hundreds of people that you never met until that moment. so i think we did a really good job at it. got a lot of good help, you see all of the gentlemen standing behind me. that s the support team that got this accomplished. one person can t do it all. and i want to applaud them for their job. is there one, chief, it s a small town and everybody knows everybody else. i m wondering, has it been
but this morning, like i say, as of last night, people that were not a member of the law enforcement, ems or fire community, we withheld sending them out doing the emergency work. now that that is finished, we can utilize a lot of this help in the private sector. we can t assume the responsibility, we don t know what training people have, so that s been probably the hardest part of managing hundreds of people that you have never met until that moment. so i think we did a really good job at it, had a lot of good help. you see all these gentlemen standing behind me. that s the support team that got this accomplished. one person can t do it all. i want to applaud them for their job. all right. you were listening there to
we strongly condemn the group or groups who did that because civilian infrastructure must be respected at all costs. we know your volunteers are going in doing amazing work. how do you secure their work area and make sure they are safe, that you are safe? through moral authority. we have unarmed humanitarian workers. we have 13,000 staff in gaza. as far as i m concerned, they re all humanitarian heroes doing extraordinary work amid the conflict, amid the fire. so that is why we have also launched a $60 million emergency appeals. starting tomorrow, we will not have enough money to procure blankets and other nonfood items. so we are appealing with emergency, a flash appeal for $60 million. one month of the sort of emergency work that we re doing now, which will start once the fighting stops with the inspector general on wait to the region we hope will be soon.
back. you do a more comprehensive search. because now you re looking for the stuff that doesn t jump off the page at you. reporter: the main highway that goes through the affected communities, oso and darrington, remain shut off. for the time being the general public and even residents are being kept out while emergency vehicles go in and out. the recovery of bodies will continue, as will for now the continued search for people who may be trapped and alive. we can t lose hope for anybody in this kmuchblt that s not what we re here for. we re here to find those people. it is so difficult for all involved. gary tuchman joins us now live. these emergency work at the scene, it can t continue around the clock, though. once darkness falls what do they do? reporter: well, it actually does, anderson, but in a very limited fashion. once it gets dark here there will be trucks on the road rebuilding the country roads that were damaged during landslide. because the emergency work can t con
what is the story there, rick? reporter: of koerbs, bil course, the businesses directly in the storm surge, retail and restaurants a lot of them have suffered dramatically. other businesses, contractors and home improvement have done very, very well. roofers, landscapers, electrical contractors. this couple run a electrical business and you guys have been crazy busy right? yes, since the storm we had hen emergency influx of emergency work. we are aeurbl to hire back some of the people we had laid off and we are looking to hire more people to handle the work that is coming in. reporter: you have more work than you can even do yourselves. wyatt this point. reporter: and you see what, no end in sight? we see this generating a very long term, at least a year, two years hopefully. reporter: it s great that they are actually able to employ other people as well. home depot, business is surging here and they are hiring 500 new workers on long island, in the