Emergency evacuations? What the media won't tell you! Pt. 1

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Imagine this....in the span of 8 days you are surrounded by fire, evacuated from a place you call home and placed in a shelter (Qualcomm Stadium) where you are afraid, disoriented but at least feel safe from the fires and are being fed. Then you find out -- only 3-4 days later (still in shock and disbelief from losing your home) that you will actually be booted out of Qualcomm Stadium so the football game can take place on Sunday (it is our understanding that the head of the NFL called Mayor Sanders and told him the game would take place in San Diego and relocating it to Houston was NOT an option -- we do not know if Sanders gave any push back to this demand).




Now you are shuttled off to the Del Mar Fairgrounds for shelter...only to be booted out of there within a couple of days. The evacuees were given around 24 hours notice to get out of Del Mar fairgrounds after barely just arriving.

When one of our reporters asked an American Red Cross worker where the evacuees would go next she stated she did not know but they would "probably be taken to other shelters or something". "Other shelters or something"?

This is happening in less than 24 hours and if the Red Cross does not know who does? This worker was also asked what items the evacuees needed at this time. Her response was "I don't know you would have to go back and ask them" . When the reporter went back to ask them there were bold signs stating "Donations at this location were no longer needed".

She went up to the evacuees and asked if this was true. Many told her, in fact, it was not as they needed clothes, strollers, baby items...they were rattling off lists of things needed and stated the signs were put up because they were making them leave the next day at 12:30PM so they did not want to have to deal with excess donations. These items that were donated and still there would be hauled off by Goodwill the next day.

It is a shame when people give freely, only to find their donations are being abused by the actual organizations who solicited the help in the first place. When did we start treating people like cattle to be shuttled off to one uncaring place after another?

Where was the media once the clowns and entertainment went away and only the ugly truth of the brutal impacting events lay bare for all to see.

Is it not surprising that there was much frustration among evacuees regarding the American Red Cross and FEMA. This video series only shares the raw feelings and beliefs of San Diego County Fire evacuees as recorded by the reporters.

Although it is believed among most of the evacuees that, once again, the Red Cross and FEMA dropped the ball during a National Disaster there were some words of praise given to the everyday volunteers who had not yet become desensitized by the system.

It is our belief that many join such organizations to help their fellow man and they volunteer because they have a true calling to help others. However, like many organizations, the bureaucracy and desensitization of those at the top impede the good intentions of the volunteers at the bottom.

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  • I have diabetes and will tell you that the red cross provided all medications necesary. along with first aid. They also offered food and masks for the smoke. Oh by the way, this guy probably had a bandana on so that he wouldn't breath in smoke. Everyone was EXTRAORDINARILY helpful. I'm mad about this rumor!

  • Are you kidding me? There was nothing fake or staged about this video unlike FEMA.

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  • all of this crap, this, the new world order, reptilians, the bradaburgs, fema, haarp, mayan calandars, fake 911 planes, the "grays" agenda, cloaked spaceships, free mason symbols in every logo in existence...is all a bunch of grown up ppl playin a grown up version of dungeons and dragons. u guys are the fuckin brainwashed not us, you are more "sheeple" than anyone! so much, that u cant even see it!!!!! i cant wait till the internet is shut down

  • if you never been in their shoes then how are some of yall saying shit about people on drugs and everything else, come on now, if you been in it like i have , left from a Hurricane, then you will know how it feels and everything else, and how hard it is sometimes when you have to up and leave and start over,i did, i ended up in Shreveport Louisiana, bc we could not come home for 2 mths,thats how bad our storm was, Rita, shit was every where

  • @hotassmarine not even, let me just tell you one thing, every body that need a place to live they helped them as much as they can, now i left from hurrican rita after katrina, and we stayed with family then ended up in hotels, now none of my close fam is not drug heads and are getto at all, and some of them had to live in trailers bc their homes had water all in it or damm trees or power lines in it

  • im done giving blood to red cross, what a scam

  • @socalstunner3

    Those who support the illegal alien community are the ones who assert a race-based privilege to ignore lawful statutes and resist enforcement mechanisms. No such lawbreaking will be tolerated from any group of citizens who refuse to pay the VAT tax, or obey a cap-and-trade law.

  • This is the way government does things. Imagine what it will be like after they sink their teeth into health care.

  • fight the power .....you are not alone!

  • This just proves you can NOT trust the state or government. Have your own plan ready and your paper work in order. Only you gives a shit about you. People should check on there state and government more to ensure these things are being looked at. If not vote for one that is. It's our fault they are lazy. Don't just vote think!

  • these guys didnt even report on the worst things. there were so many flagrant harassments it was unbelievable, SDPD and border patrol were incredibly cruel. check out the ACLU reports, this may have been worse than Katrina.

    US authorities denied that they rounded up undocumented peoples at evac centers, that is a blatant lie. we saw it going on, they raided the tents and the cots in the middle of the night and separated several families

    Hot assmarine is just a huge idiot , ignore him

  • Well you all wanted to bitch anout the help we gave all those niggers, they all lived in the ghetto lived on warefare , were drug dealers and were poor as shit., fema gave them trailers to live in and they bitched , because they always want ,more , you give a nigger a inch he will take a mile, mexicans ,niggers, spics, cubans, and all the res of you nasty fuckers, we were over seas helping all those other niggers in the tsunami , so guess what you need to move back to new orleans and drink a40

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