Miami Herald: Massive airborne relief mission en route to Keys to help with ‘humanitarian crisis’
A huge airborne relief mission is en route to the Keys to help people impacted by the devastation caused when the eye of Hurricane Irma blasted through the Lower Florida Keys at daybreak Sunday morning.
Monroe County Emergency Management Director Martin Senterfitt called the destruction caused by Irma, a massive Category 4 storm when it impacted the Keys, a “humanitarian crisis.”
Among the services coming to the Keys are “disaster mortuary teams,” he said during a conference
call.
United States Air Force special operations pilots are testing flights with C-130 cargo planes around the massive storm from Mississippi to the Keys in anticipation of the mission, which will include Air National Guard flights of more C-130s and helicopters following the fixed-wing flights.
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Update: Irma Hits Florida as Military Preps Massive Rescue Effort (Military.com)
WNU Editor: The men and women who will be responding to this crisis definitely have their work cut out for them in the coming days.
United States Air Force special operations pilots are testing flights with C-130 cargo planes around the massive storm from Mississippi to the Keys in anticipation of the mission, which will include Air National Guard flights of more C-130s and helicopters following the fixed-wing flights.
Read more ....
Update: Irma Hits Florida as Military Preps Massive Rescue Effort (Military.com)
WNU Editor: The men and women who will be responding to this crisis definitely have their work cut out for them in the coming days.
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