--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I haven't heard this discussed on the news, but it seems to me that > > a lot of people must have retreated to attics without an axe, and > > may be trapped in them now, suffocating or dying of the heat. Are > > rescuers routinely chopping through all the roofs to see if anyone > > is in there? > > I saw some film of one rescue worker doing > exactly that, chopping through a roof, but for > the most part they apparently have their hands > full just rescuing the people they can see, the > ones who have made it onto the roof to call for > help. They're pretty sure there are many more > they can't see still trapped in their attics, > with no food or water and, as you say, in awful > heat. > > There just aren't enough rescue workers to do the > whole job. They can't work at night, at least > the ones in boats can't, because they have to be > able to clearly see obstacles in order to navigate > around them. > > It does seem as though a massive rescue and aid > effort is finally getting under way, but > everything up to this point was pretty much > haphazard.
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