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Just heard from the Fire Chief of my City who is handling the efforts of the Florida Fire Chiefs Association.

Currently they have 3 strikes team in the MS area (they are covering five counties in MS). With 210 USAR personnel currently activity working the area. They are currently working a collaspe in the Pasaqua MS area.

They expect to triple the number of personnel within the area by noon.

The Chief is about an hour away from the Florida EOC in Tallahassee. From there he will go to Biloxi to handle the incoming resources. Additional information will be posted when received.

Michael

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Do you mean a collapse in the Pascagoula, MS area?

I think this likely to be one of the schools that may have been used as a shelter.

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Got this info:

Hancock and Jackson counties fared no better. A foot of water swamped the emergency operations center at the Hancock County courthouse -- which sits 30 feet above sea level. The back of the courthouse collapsed under the onslaught.

"Thirty-five people swam out of their emergency operations center with life jackets on," neighboring Harrison County emergency medical services director Christopher Cirillo said Monday. "We haven't heard from them."

Jackson County's emergency operations center also disintegrated as Katrina raged ashore. The roof was peeling off by 7:30 a.m., forcing officials to evacuate to the courthouse across the street.

My brother in Jackson County told me they started to get the 100+ mph winds at 7am, which were still going on unabated at 11am when he called.

note: Hancock is the westmost of the 3 counties that no one has heard from yet, with communities like Waveland and Bay St. Louis, that apparently were completely submerged, and which the northern eyewall of Katrina hit directly from the south.
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Also found this:

Grand Casino Biloxi washed across U.S. 90.

In Gulfport, the Copa Casino barge sat on land next to the Grand Casino parking garage.

I suspected those should have been towed away and if not would be washed ashore.

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From WAVE 3 TV blog, WLOX's sister station:

We're still receiving massive amounts of e-mails from folks looking for information on very specific locations, people, etc. We will struggle to do this because of manpower limitiations, but we will try to paint broad pictures for you.

We're getting lots of requests for Long Beach and Pass Christian information. Here's what I've got right now, and it's not much because there's no communication there and emergency personnel haven't been able to make their way very far into Pass Christian. Hancock County is largely unknown ground at this point.I've posted stuff from the first foray by National Guardsmen into Pass Christian.

The southern area of Diamondhead below Interstate 10 has been heavily damaged.

Total destruction from the Bay Bridge to St. Stanislaus. She also said Coleman Ave. and Nicholson Ave. suffered mass destruction.

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Katrina's Surge: http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/Katrinas_surge_contents.asp

Edited by Margie (Tue Aug 30 2005 03:27 PM)

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