Over 200 evacuate to shelters

Posted on Jun 28 2004

With weather conditions from Typhoon Tingting worsening yesterday, over 200 people began to seek hiding in several schools designated as shelters.

As of 3pm yesterday, seven shelters were occupied by 201 people. Housing the most people was Garapan Elementary School with 86, 30 of which were children; Koblerville Elementary School with 57; Dandan Elementary School with 17; Oleai Elementary School with 16, Kagman High School housed 13, San Vicente Elementary School had nine, while Tanapag Elementary School had three.

According to GES shelter manager William T. Lieto, service to the shelter was also provided by the Public School System via school buses.

He said as much as four families shared rooms due to limited availability and number of families that might rush to the shelter at a later hour.

“A lot of the families request to have a room of their own, but we just can’t do that,” he said. “We don’t have that much rooms and other families might come. They have to share.”

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