ITALY: SCENES AT ROME AIRPORT OF AID SUPPLIES BEING SENT TO AMERICA IN AID OF HURRICANE KATRINA VICTIMS.

Record ID: 648140

  • Title: ITALY: SCENES AT ROME AIRPORT OF AID SUPPLIES BEING SENT TO AMERICA IN AID OF HURRICANE KATRINA VICTIMS.
  • Date: 5th September 2005
  • Summary: (W5) ROME, ITALY (SEPTEMBER 4, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. LV/WS/NIGHT: OF PLANE C130 TAXIING AT CIAMPINO AIRPORT. (2 SHOTS) 0.08 2. WS/SCU/ NIGHT: OF CIVIL PROTECTION STAFF MEETING C130 PILOTS. (2 SHOTS) 0.17 3. WS/NIGHT: SOLDIER IN FRONT OF C130. 0.21 4. VARIOUS/NIGHT: OF RED CROSS AND CIVIL PROTECTION VEHICLES APPROACHING PLANE. (2 SHOTS) 0.48 5. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (English) AGOSTINO MIOZZO, CIVIL PROTECTION OPERATION COORDINATOR, SAYING: "I know that, as Civil Protection staff, there is a great catastrophe and there is a friend country that is asking support and we are doing this support. We are answering to the request of a friend country, the American authorities. It's quite normal that such a catastrophe make problems like the problems that the Americans are facing right now." 1.17 6. WS/NIGHT: OF LOADING OPERATIONS. / PAN TO INTERIOR OF PLANE. 1.22 7. CU/NIGHT: INTERIOR OF THE PLANE WITH AID PILED TOGETHER. (2 SHOTS) 1.29 8. VARIOUS/NIGHT: OF CIVIL PROTECTION TEAMS UNLOADING TRUCKS FULL OF AID. (2 SHOTS) 1.53 9. ASCU/NIGHT: GOSTINO MIOZZO WATCHING UNLOADING OPERATIONS. 1.57 10. WS/PAN/NIGHT: RED CROSS TRUCK NEXT TO AIRPLANE. 2.04 11. SCU/NIGHT: (SOUNDBITE) AGOSTINO MIOZZO, CIVIL PROTECTION OPERATION COORDINATOR, SAYING: "There will be a team, a technical team, expert team in disaster management leaving tomorrow morning in parallel with the plane and we will meet the American authorities and we will discuss with them. In case they will need our support, our experts to be there, we are ready to stay with them and work with the American authorities." 2.26 12. MV:/NIGHT: CIVIL PROTECTION TEAM LABELLING GOODS. 2.31 13. VARIOUS/NIGHT: OF LABELS READING: "KATRINA HUMANITARIAN AID, INFANT FOOD"; "KATRINA HUMANITARIAN AID, FIRST HEALTH KITS" (3 SHOTS) 2.41 14. VARIOUS/NIGHT: OF PLANE DURING LOADING OPERATIONS. (2 SHOTS) 2.53 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 20th September 2005 13:00
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  • Location: ROME, ITALY
  • Country: Italy
  • Reuters ID: LVACR3XOY486UNNUY82TXQD2QX9U
  • Story Text: Italy sends aid and other supplies to New Orleans and other areas
    affected by Hurricane Katrina.



    Italian relief agencies sent out on Sunday (September 4, 2005) evening a
    first batch of humanitarian aid to areas affected by Hurricane Katrina.

    Boxes of camp beds, water pumps, foods and medical supplies provided by
    the Italian Civil Protection and the Red Cross were being loaded on a C130, a
    military cargo plane taxied at Rome's Ciampino airport.

    The plane is due to land to Washington D.C on Monday (September 5)
    where a joint operation coordinated by American relief teams and the Italian
    Civil Protection will begin.

    Italy's relief effort follow the U.S. pledge for help at which some 60
    countries have replied, including several International organisations and
    religious institutions.

    "I know that, as Civil Protection staff, there is a great
    catastrophe and there is a friend country that is asking support and we are
    doing this support. We are answering to the request of a friend country, the
    American authorities. It's quite normal that such a catastrophe make problems
    like the problems that the Americans are facing right now," said Agostino
    Miozzo, coordinator of the Civil Protection relief operation.

    A second plane is due to depart on Monday (September 5) with teams of
    disaster management and evacuation experts.

    "There will be a team, a technical team, expert team in disaster
    management leaving tomorrow morning in parallel with the plane and we will
    meet the American Authorities and we will discuss with them. In case they will
    need our support, our experts to be there, we are ready to stay with them and
    work with the American authorities," Agostino Miozzo added.

    This Italian first mission could be followed by others in the next
    days.

    The death toll has continued to rise in New Orleans and U.S. Gulf
    States as evacuees succumbed to illness and exhaustion.

    While the mayhem of New Orleans captured the world's attention, towns
    along the Gulf Coast were beginning the enormous task of reconstruction and
    accounting for the dead.

    In hard-hit Biloxi, Mississippi, homes and cars still lay piled up on
    each other or under trees, and power lines dangled everywhere.

    Well over 100 deaths had been confirmed in Mississippi and municipal
    workers were finding new casualties in the debris. Officials warned of a
    serious risk of dysentery and other diseases from contaminated water.

    The impact of the storm was felt across the United States as gas prices
    rose to more than $3 a gallon after Katrina's 140 mph (225 kph) winds shut
    eight oil refineries and crippled others.

    Thousands are feared dead and hundreds are still missing.



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