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Hurricane Juan's Effect on Nova Scotia, Prince Edward island

Aired September 29, 2003 - 05:02   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: We're going to talk more about Hurricane Juan right now. It's caused all kinds of damage there.
On the phone from Halifax, Mayor Peter Kelly.

Good morning, Mayor.

MAYOR PETER KELLY, HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA: Good morning.

COSTELLO: Tell us what conditions are like there now.

KELLY: At this time day bright, or daylight is just starting to break. So I've got a very up and close update as to what has taken place. Power is still out extensively throughout the Halifax regional municipality. Last evening we did have one fatality and a couple other injuries. The fatality was a paramedic who was in an ambulance on standby and a tree fell on top. One of his coworkers are also in there and is in the hospital at this time. We're also dealing with an injured firefighter, again, due to trees.

We have extensive power outages, as I said, extensive trees down and power lines still down and we are still in a state of local emergency.

COSTELLO: How many people have been evacuated, Mr. Mayor?

KELLY: We are doing the final tabulations, but there was one apartment complex that did partially collapse and we did take out 200 individuals from that and put them in the sportsplex. We are dealing with a commercial collapse, as well, and reports in that several hundred people are in shelters. And, again, others have gone and stayed with friends and family members. And, again, we are now trying to get up to date information as quickly as we can.

COSTELLO: Where are you, by the way?

KELLY: I am at the emergency operations center in the Halifax regional municipality. We have been on emergency power for a fair number of hours, probably about five or six. We have been in operation since yesterday at noon and we still continue to go full tilt to deal with the issues.

COSTELLO: All right, we're going to get back to you in the next hour.

Mayor Peter Kelly, thanks for joining us this morning, the mayor of Halifax. And in case you don't know much about Halifax, it's a town of about 118,000 people. And as you can see, it's right on the coast. It's a fishing village, but it's a pretty good sized city, too. We'll keep you up to date about conditions there.

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Aired September 29, 2003 - 05:02   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: We're going to talk more about Hurricane Juan right now. It's caused all kinds of damage there.
On the phone from Halifax, Mayor Peter Kelly.

Good morning, Mayor.

MAYOR PETER KELLY, HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA: Good morning.

COSTELLO: Tell us what conditions are like there now.

KELLY: At this time day bright, or daylight is just starting to break. So I've got a very up and close update as to what has taken place. Power is still out extensively throughout the Halifax regional municipality. Last evening we did have one fatality and a couple other injuries. The fatality was a paramedic who was in an ambulance on standby and a tree fell on top. One of his coworkers are also in there and is in the hospital at this time. We're also dealing with an injured firefighter, again, due to trees.

We have extensive power outages, as I said, extensive trees down and power lines still down and we are still in a state of local emergency.

COSTELLO: How many people have been evacuated, Mr. Mayor?

KELLY: We are doing the final tabulations, but there was one apartment complex that did partially collapse and we did take out 200 individuals from that and put them in the sportsplex. We are dealing with a commercial collapse, as well, and reports in that several hundred people are in shelters. And, again, others have gone and stayed with friends and family members. And, again, we are now trying to get up to date information as quickly as we can.

COSTELLO: Where are you, by the way?

KELLY: I am at the emergency operations center in the Halifax regional municipality. We have been on emergency power for a fair number of hours, probably about five or six. We have been in operation since yesterday at noon and we still continue to go full tilt to deal with the issues.

COSTELLO: All right, we're going to get back to you in the next hour.

Mayor Peter Kelly, thanks for joining us this morning, the mayor of Halifax. And in case you don't know much about Halifax, it's a town of about 118,000 people. And as you can see, it's right on the coast. It's a fishing village, but it's a pretty good sized city, too. We'll keep you up to date about conditions there.

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