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From Kinship Circle: NOAH’S WISH UNITED ANIMAL NATIONS / EARS
1. REPORT: Florida Tornadoes And Animal Relief *Capt. Ron and the Pet Owners Alliance head the committee for animal rescue for the American Red Cross Disaster Services (VOAD). Florida VOAD [Florida Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster]. Many of you recognize Capt. Ron from his major contributions to Gulf Coast animal rescue. 2/5/07, from Capt. Ron, capron@pets911.org — We are in daily phone contact with all animal control agencies and humane
societies in the area. There have been no requests for supplies or assistance of any kind. While there were some strays in the
streets, the main problem in the beginning was the dogs still guarding wrecked property and not letting the search and rescue
teams in. We are also on the daily VOAD conference calls and no agency has indicated an animal problem. Doesn't mean there
were no problems, it means the agencies in the area were able to handle it.
2. SPCA Deployed to Help Tornado’s Four-legged Victims
“We moved adoptable animals from the Sumter County Humane Society to our facility in Largo where they will be put up for adoption,” Connie Brooks, Director of Operations for the SPCA . “This will leave room for boarding displaced animals until their owners are found.” The SPCA brought back a total of 30 dogs including a mother dog with four, three-week-old puppies. The young pups will need to be fostered be for they are ready for adoption. The rest will be ready for adoption after they have been checked out medically.
Owners looking for their lost animals should contact their local shelters for guidance. Micro-chipped animals have a greater chance of being reunited with their respective owners once they are found. SPCA is in need of monetary donations to support this relief effort. ONLINE DONATIONS: www.SPCATampaBay.org VOLUNTEERING: www.spcafl.org/site/PageServer?pagename=volunteer_jobs SPCA is a nonprofit, non-government supported, animal shelter that relies on individual donations to run its facility and disaster relief efforts.
TO ALL CENTRAL FLORIDIANS:
-----Forwarded Message----- Subject: Wanted: Pet Items for Lake County Animal Services Lake County Animal Control is overwhelmed with animals displaced by the tornado. They desperately need crates, other type Since the police are still asking that people avoid that area, Seminole County Animal Services is handling taking in the DELIVER TORNADO ANIMAL RELIEF ITEMS TO: The Animal Services Division’s animal shelter is located at 232 Bush Blvd. in Sanford, Florida at the Seminole County Five Points Operations Center. Bush Blvd. comes directly off of US HWY 17-92 in Sanford across the street from Flea World. Thanks, Elisa Law
By HEATHER MOYER / DELAND, Fla. (February 4, 2007) — Four Florida counties received a federal disaster declaration for Friday's deadly tornadoes. The tornadoes killed at least 20 people and damaged or destroyed more than 2,000 homes. The announcement came Saturday that a Presidential disaster declaration was approved for Lake, Sumter, Volusia and Seminole counties for public, individual and mitigation assistance. The Federal Emergency Management Agency now has five Disaster Recovery Centers set up for affected residents to utilize. The National Weather Service said at least three tornadoes with winds of up to 165-miles-per-hour ripped through the four counties in the early morning hours of Friday. The state emergency management division said the hardest hit areas are in Lake and Volusia counties. More than 1,500 homes in Lake County saw damage, with at least 100 destroyed. The Lake County communities of Lady Lake and Paisley were devastated, with television images showing buildings and mobile homes shredded and scattered over a 20-mile area. A state of emergency is in effect for the four counties and damage assessments are continuing. Volusia County is reporting 700 homes damaged or destroyed, with hundreds of others affected. Sumter County is reporting 400 to 500 homes damaged. The Volusia County communities of DeLand and New Smyrna Beach were hit hard, with county damage estimates hitting $80 million. Four county schools suffered damage. Minor damages are also reported in Orange, Marion and Indian River counties. Members of the Florida chapter of Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (FLVOAD) are conducting daily conference calls to organize and stay in contact about resources and responses. The members are also meeting in person Sunday to continue the response activities, including distributing information to the public, about the best ways to help the affected residents. The agencies continue to push monetary donations as the best way to help, and that showing up in the affected areas as an unaffiliated volunteer only adds to recovery problems.
Agencies including Florida Baptist Disaster Relief, the Latter Day Saints, Adventist Community Services, Christian Contractors Association, Christian Disaster Response and Compassion Alliance have more than 700 volunteers operating as clean-up crews and donation management crews in the affected areas. FLVOAD agencies are providing supplies such as ice, food, water, tarps and more to affected residents. Church World Service is providing health kits and blankets for distribution as well. Church denominations are checking in on their local churches and providing assistance as needed. Numerous other agencies are also offering their assistance, including Florida Interfaith Networking in Disasters, Catholic Charities, Church of the Brethren Disaster Child Care, Lutheran Disaster Response, Presbyterian Disaster Assistance, Nazarene Disaster Services, Operation Blessing, Florida Disciples of Christ, the United Church of Christ and the local United Methodist Church conferences.
Other agencies such as Convoy of Hope and America's Second Harvest are providing truckloads of food, and The Salvation Army and the American Red Cross are operating shelters in the affected counties. Several churches are also shelter sites. One church in Lady Lake was completely demolished by the tornado. The Lady Lake Church of God had been built to withstand 150-mile-per-hour winds, but was reduced to rubble Friday morning. Curfews were in effect across the counties since Friday. Some 1,500 were still without power Sunday morning in Volusia County. Debris continues to keep roads closed and boil water notices are in effect for some areas as well. Friday's tornadoes are the second deadliest in Florida's history, and the worst since 1998, when tornadoes struck the Orlando area and killed 42 people. 6. FL State Emergency Operations Ctr. Report FROM KINSHIP CIRCLE: There is no mention of animal relief efforts in this detailed report of emergency operations in central Florida, however Capt. Ron of VOAD/Pet Owners Alliance, EARS and Noah’s Wish all report animal efforts are underway locally with no major call for outside aid at this time. If the situation changes, we will let you know... The State Emergency Operations Center (SEOC) is currently at Level 1 (Full) activation with full ESF is staffing in the State Emergency Operations Center. There were several reported Tornado touchdowns in Lake, Sumter, Volusia, Indian River, and Seminole counties. Storms swept across central Florida early Friday morning, damaging homes, toppling trees and overturning trucks on Interstate 4 (I-4). Powerful winds knocked down trees and power lines. Florida Power is reporting approx 20,000 customers without power and SECO is reporting approx 10,047 customers without power. Unreported fatalities have been reported and many walking wounded. The SERT is working with law enforcement to confirm reports. Damage reports are ongoing and will be reported soon Area of Operations: Lake, Seminole, Volusia, and Sumter counties. Damage Reported by County 7. [Endangered] Crane Survived Florida Storm That Killed 17 Others 2/5/07, By ASSOCIATED PRESS, MILWAUKEE — One young whooping crane survived a Florida storm that killed 17 other cranes, which were led south last fall from Wisconsin by ultralight aircraft, an organizer said Sunday. Organizers originally thought all 18 birds had perished in the storms that moved in late Thursday. The birds, born last spring, were being kept in a top-netted enclosure at the Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge near Crystal River. The male was noticed missing Saturday when organizers went in the pen for the birds' carcasses. The cranes were fitted with transmitters and organizers got signals from the bird Saturday and Sunday and then saw him with two sandhill cranes in Citrus County, Fla. later Sunday, not far from the enclosure, said Rachel Levin, a spokeswoman with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It's one of the groups involved in the project to create a second migratory flock of the endangered birds in North American. "We are just so relieved to have found him alive — one small ray of hope for this disaster in the crane project," Levin said by phone from the Twin Cities. "I think we probably consider him to be a little bit of a miracle bird," she said. The surviving crane happens to be the same one that wandered from the flock on their last day of migration in December and was found a few days later. "It's interesting that it's the same crane that went off on its own and managed to escape the storm," Levin said. Organizers will continue to track and monitor the bird, she said. This is about the time in their lives organizers let the cranes explore the area, she said. At least 20 people were killed and hundreds of homes were destroyed when three tornadoes hit the area early Friday. Joe Duff, senior pilot and co-founder of Operation Migration, a nonprofit organization coordinating the project, has said the University of Florida would perform tests soon on the birds to determine how they died. He suspected it could have been from drowning or lightning strikes. Organizers called the deaths a major setback, but they planned to keep trying to help return the species to its original numbers in eastern North America. For the past six years, whooping cranes hatched in captivity have been raised at the Necedah refuge by workers who wear crane-like costumes to keep the birds wary of humans. Ultralight aircraft are used to teach new groups of young cranes the migration route to Florida. From then on, the birds migrate north in the spring and south in the fall on their own. In another milestone reached in 2006, a pair of the whooping cranes produced offspring in the wild. One of the two chicks survived and migrated with the parents to Florida. The whooping crane, the tallest bird in North America, was near extinction in 1941, with only about 20 left. The other wild whooping crane flock in North America has about 200 birds and migrates from Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast. A non-migratory flock in Florida has about 60 birds. 8. Florida Animal Disaster Response Resources AREAS IN PATH OF TORNADOES & NEARBY
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