Sentence examples for disaster committee from inspiring English sources

A television reporter was killed and three children were missing, a spokesman for the national disaster committee said.

Casten Nemra, who chairs the national disaster committee, said many large families were surviving on as little as 4.5 litres of water a day.

The prime minister took over chairmanship of the government's disaster committee – Cobra – and pledged to do "everything that can be done" to help those affected and set aside an extra £100m to help with flood repairs and maintenance.

It was not until the third day, Monday 8 August, that the Met turned to the Police National Information Co-ordination Centre (PNICC), which works with Downing Street's emergency disaster committee, Cobra, at times of national crisis.

John Henry Telemaque, assistant coordinator for education for President René Préval's emergency disaster committee, said that perhaps up to 97 percent of the city's schools — built to withstand hurricanes, not earthquakes — had been destroyed, and that the dead within were still being counted.

It was the opinion of all the disaster committee that socio-economic characteristics play a role in flood mitigation communication in that community's farming activities hamper them from evacuating holistically during flooding.

But one great outcome from this, if you can ever have a positive outcome from a cyclone, is seeing ADRA's community disaster committees (CDCs) and the local provincial disaster committees coordinating and functioning well.

"We're much more prepared now than we were then," Mr. Burgos, said, adding that the coastal evacuations, the alerts issued on local news media and the mobilization of local disaster committees were all legacies of Mitch.

Other informal research techniques included transect walks with members of community disaster committees to identify hazard exposure based on previous hazard impacts.

So they go through the area council and then the area council contacts all the responsible persons, like chiefs, or health committees, or disaster committees and then we organize all the people together, then everyone comes to the nakamal [traditional meeting place] and then we talk to them.

Disaster committees cautioned residents to stock up on supplies such as batteries and canned food.