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Local February 10, 2012 | 8:21 am

We’re not ready for a major quake, first responders’ agency warns

Santo Domingo.- Emergency Operations Center (COE) director Juan Manuel Mendez warned Thursday that the Dominican population isn’t prepared to deal with major earthquakes and it’s up to the Government to ready prepare it, because that implies hundreds of millions of pesos his agency doesn’t have.

He said COE doesn’t have funds to deal with such an importance issue in the event of ... Read more

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