Sentence examples for makeshift emergency from inspiring English sources

Instead, he was among the runners treating other runners, a makeshift emergency medical service of exhausted athletes.

At one of the makeshift emergency centers, exhausted police officers and firefighters lay on cots, arms shielding their eyes.

"I lost my wife," he said in a conversation at the makeshift emergency center in the hills outside town, then quietly added, "Maybe".

In the tiny hamlet of Buoncompra, 700 residents were evacuated to a makeshift emergency centre on the outskirts of town, overlooking the destroyed church of San Martino.

The image of a home ablaze on a TV screen caught Diana Cardenas's attention as soon as she walked into a makeshift emergency center.

The alarm was quickly raised with New York's senior senator, Charles E. Schumer, who, it happened, was meeting that evening in a makeshift emergency command center with Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, Gov. George E. Pataki and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

A large truck blocked the road; people were unloading supplies into a makeshift emergency-relief station inside.

When the storm subsided, an E.M.T. named Jacob Bradley, who had set up a makeshift emergency-medical-services station on the island, organized another search.

The Discovery Health Channel has done stories on post-traumatic stress and makeshift emergency-room care at ground zero, while the History Channel has integrated news into regular features like "History Center," its Sunday morning talk show, and "This Week in History," which typically focuses on events and people from the past.

(A makeshift second emergency room was created from one of the inpatient rooms).

All day Thursday, oiled birds, including the 29 brown pelicans, arrived at the makeshift veterinary emergency room built in a hangar on a former military base.