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Introduction
I’m going to present about the 22 April explosion in Guadalajara that is a very notorious disaster in Jalisco, and I find that is the bigger disaster in Jalisco.
22 April 1992explosion
On Wednesday, April 22, 1992, the 461-year old city of Guadalajara, Mexico, experienced a series of ten massive explosions occurring in the heart of the downtown Reforma district.
The explosionsbegan at 10:30 a.m. (12:30 p.m. EDT) and continued for two hours. Five hours after the initial explosion, a second large explosion occurred about three miles from the Reforma site. The blastsmeasured 7.1 and 7.0 on the Richter scale at the University of Mexico in Mexico City some 200 miles away.
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The blast blew open the streets and carved an enormous 9 mile ditch down the middle ofAvenida Gante measuring 80 feet wide and 25 feet deep. Approximately 1,000 buildings were collapsed, destroyed or heavily damaged.
Drs. James Dugal, and Gail Anderson, led their team of physicians, theAmerican Medical Search and Rescue Team based in Atlanta, Georgia, to the explosion disaster site in Guadalajara, Mexico.
The team was requested by the Jalisco Government and the University Autonomousof Guadalajara (UAG) Medical School to evaluate the search and rescue efforts, the medical needs of the trauma hospitals and consultation on “Crush Syndrome.”
Initial reports by the Mexican Governmentand confirmed by team member Al Nixon of the Atlanta Red Cross said at least 2,000 people were injured, 200 people were killed and over 20,000 were left homeless. Damages of building were estimatedto be at $300 million.
Upon arriving to Guadalajara, the team, “hit the ground running.” One hour after arriving on Friday, Dr. Dugal and the rescue team were peering into a massive crater in whatused to be the street, assisting in the digging for survivors of one of the worst industrial accidents in Mexican history.
The team began assisting in the search and rescue effort which would last the...
I’m going to present about the 22 April explosion in Guadalajara that is a very notorious disaster in Jalisco, and I find that is the bigger disaster in Jalisco.
22 April 1992explosion
On Wednesday, April 22, 1992, the 461-year old city of Guadalajara, Mexico, experienced a series of ten massive explosions occurring in the heart of the downtown Reforma district.
The explosionsbegan at 10:30 a.m. (12:30 p.m. EDT) and continued for two hours. Five hours after the initial explosion, a second large explosion occurred about three miles from the Reforma site. The blastsmeasured 7.1 and 7.0 on the Richter scale at the University of Mexico in Mexico City some 200 miles away.
[pic]
The blast blew open the streets and carved an enormous 9 mile ditch down the middle ofAvenida Gante measuring 80 feet wide and 25 feet deep. Approximately 1,000 buildings were collapsed, destroyed or heavily damaged.
Drs. James Dugal, and Gail Anderson, led their team of physicians, theAmerican Medical Search and Rescue Team based in Atlanta, Georgia, to the explosion disaster site in Guadalajara, Mexico.
The team was requested by the Jalisco Government and the University Autonomousof Guadalajara (UAG) Medical School to evaluate the search and rescue efforts, the medical needs of the trauma hospitals and consultation on “Crush Syndrome.”
Initial reports by the Mexican Governmentand confirmed by team member Al Nixon of the Atlanta Red Cross said at least 2,000 people were injured, 200 people were killed and over 20,000 were left homeless. Damages of building were estimatedto be at $300 million.
Upon arriving to Guadalajara, the team, “hit the ground running.” One hour after arriving on Friday, Dr. Dugal and the rescue team were peering into a massive crater in whatused to be the street, assisting in the digging for survivors of one of the worst industrial accidents in Mexican history.
The team began assisting in the search and rescue effort which would last the...
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