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Puerto Ricans in Utah collecting supplies for Hurricane Fiona relief efforts
Locals clear mud introduced by Hurricane Fiona within the Los Sotos neighborhood of Higuey, Dominican Republic, Tuesday. Puerto Ricans in Utah are banding collectively to assist Puerto Rico after yet one more disaster has hit the island. (Ricardo Hernandez, Related Press)
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SALT LAKE CITY — Puerto Ricans in Utah are banding collectively to assist Puerto Rico after yet one more disaster has hit the island.
Hurricane Fiona hit Puerto Rico on Sunday, knocking out energy and water to many of the island and leaving tons of of individuals stranded amid quickly rising floodwaters. The hurricane additionally left about 1 million folks with out operating water within the Dominican Republic on Monday and landed in Turks and Caicos on Tuesday.
Fiona comes 5 years after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico. A lot of the island has but to get better from Maria, which killed practically 3,000 folks and destroyed the facility grid in 2017. The island additionally suffered a 6.4 magnitude earthquake in 2020 that broken two of the island’s largest energy vegetation.
“It is simply actually heartbreaking to see the Puerto Rican folks maintain being simply slammed time after time with one other hurricane, one other earthquake, one other political authorities that’s not actually taking good care of the folks the way in which they need to,” mentioned Miriam Padilla, a member of the group Puerto Rico en Utah. “In Puerto Rico, we all the time assist one another. The neighborhood is the one who’s uplifting one another — and that is what we’re gonna do once more this time round.”
Puerto Rico en Utah, which Padilla and Liliana Rodríguez based in 2019, is accumulating provides to ship to Puerto Rico. Donations could be dropped off at a neighborhood bombazo hosted by the band Bomba Marilé (of which each Rodríguez and Padilla are members) on Sept. 25 from 3 to 7 p.m. on the Black Cultural Middle on the College of Utah. Under are some examples of wanted gadgets. A full record is offered on Puerto Rico en Utah’s Fb web page.
- First-aid provides and over-the-counter drugs for irritation, ache aid, joint ache, gastrointestinal points, allergic reactions and colds
- Vitamin dietary supplements and child formulation
- Private hygiene merchandise
- Dietary assist gadgets, akin to lunch coolers for treatment, glucose tablets and protein bars
- Emergency preparedness gadgets like tents, solar-powered chargers and radios, flashlights, water filtration tablets and tarps
- College provides
Puerto Rico en Utah is working with two organizations, Brigada Solidaria del Oeste and Catacumbas 7, to get the provides to people in Puerto Rico.
“We’re beginning to work with these two that we all know are working instantly with the folks,” Rodríguez mentioned in Spanish. “I’ve had private contact with them and I do know they’re transferring provides to the folks. It is not like Hurricane Maria the place the federal government obtained and did not give out something.”
Protests in Puerto Rico have been widespread after the invention of a warehouse filled with catastrophe provides in 2020. A few of the provides dated again to Hurricane Maria three years prior. Rodríguez, who was residing in Puerto Rico throughout Maria, mentioned she did not obtain any assist from the federal government till six months after the hurricane.
“Do not donate to the native Puerto Rican authorities as a result of the folks do not see it,” Padilla mentioned. “We’re making an attempt to actually deal with organizations which have been round with Hurricane Maria with the earthquakes that are actually current that we all know are trusted and have been actually working in the neighborhood and people are those we’re recommending.”
Puerto Rico en Utah plans to attend till mail providers are up and operating once more to ship the provides. Puerto Rico en Utah organized an identical donation drive after the 2020 earthquake and labored with a Puerto Rican airline employee to get cargo house donated to fly the provides to the island. Rodríguez and her household then flew to Puerto Rico and picked up the gadgets and distributed them to tent cities on the island.
Padilla and Rodríguez hope they’ll work out one thing comparable this time round. They’ve began a GoFundMe* account to assist cowl the prices related to getting the gadgets to Puerto Rico and to donate to organizations in Puerto Rico.
Each Rodríguez and Padilla say their households are bodily doing OK regardless of injury to their properties. Nevertheless, the psychological affect of each hurricane Maria and Fiona, in addition to a 6.4 magnitude earthquake in 2020, takes a toll.
“Mentally, that is what individuals are actually struggling for as a result of we do not know the way lengthy the lights are gonna be out, we do not know the way lengthy the water goes to be out. And so they have PTSD from Maria realizing that they went six months (with out energy), some folks a yr, some folks longer,” Padilla mentioned. “It is the uncertainty that’s actually scary to folks.”
Rodríguez added that with so many pure and different disasters taking place all over the world proper now, it is vital to be ready to assist others.
“In the present day it is taking place there, however in any second it might occur right here,” Rodríguez mentioned.
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A family in Cottonwood Heights is using their love for art to bring joy to those around them.
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Utah Highway Patrol responds to your suggestions on making Utah roads safer
SALT LAKE CITY — FOX 13 News is Driven to Change and that includes bringing you reports on important topics like road rage, construction, and wrong-way drivers. During our coverage, we continually ask for any questions or concerns you may have along Utah’s roadways.
The feedback has gotten an enormous response, so FOX 13 sat down with Lieutenant Cameron Roden on Good Day Utah to help address input we have been getting, from the perspective of Utah Highway Patrol.
Speeding in Utah, there’s so much of it, and then you can sometimes say that that leads to tailgating, which may lead to road rage incidents. What are you seeing out there in terms of speed and what can we do to lessen the effects of that?
Lt. Cameron Roden: Speed is our number one thing that we see. That’s our number one traffic stop that we make, and we know that it leads to the majority of crashes in the state of Utah. So we definitely put an emphasis on speed and it does lead to other things. Not just crashes. It leads to road rage and other things .So, as far as what changes can we make, we need to start with ourselves, and really say, ‘Hey, do I have a problem?’ You know, we just need to start with ourselves and not think that it’s something else’s problem. If we slow our speeds ourselves, and then it’ll start to to catch on and people will do that speed limit. So, but the legislature has definitely taken some steps to help us address, especially the the speeds that are those excessive speeds where we have that one zero five law now that addresses those speeds and increases fines and and hopefully discourages people from those extreme speeds.
Some of our viewers talked about maybe capping some of the speed limits for truck drivers. Is that something that’s even feasible?
You know, that would be something that would have to go through that, that legislative process to see whether we that would be something that would help. But ultimately, if we we start with ourselves, hopefully that will make that change and reduce crashes and fatalities.
There are things being done to try and intervene and stop wrong-way drivers before they happen. But some of our viewers propose things like spikes. What are your thoughts on implementing something like that?
We’ve had over the last several years, a rash of wrong-way drivers, and it’ll come in onesie twos, and then we’ll go for a period of time without that. And so, but this spike over the last couple of years has caused us to to create a task force to look at wrongly driving what things can be done. And so getting all these stakeholders together between UDOT and Highway Safety, looking at what technologies and things that could be implemented, and and things like, wrong way detection cameras. Those are some things that are being actually used in the state of Utah right now to help us spot those and and advance signage, getting people to realize they’re going the wrong way and turn around. The the spike strips have actually been talked about in our task force a little bit. And if something like that would even be, it is that technology available right now. And as what we could actually implement in the state of Utah, there’s nothing that really fits the bill right now because of our environment. We have our snow plows. We have snow and things like that. Something like that really wouldn’t be practical right now.
Probably the most talked about topic that we’ve received was distracted driving, texting while driving. You went out, I saw on the UHP social media page, that you guys just driving and you look to your right and left and you can find someone texting. What kind of enforcement do we have against distracted driving specifically on your phone?
This is something that we like you said, we see it every day. We go out to crashes,and and we may suspect that a driver may be distracted. And so, it’s something that’s definitely under-reported. It’s it’s a bigger problem than than the numbers really show.And so not only do we address it during our normal patrols.Our officers are seeing it, and addressing it while they’re out there.But we’ll also do targeted patrols where the highway safety office actually gives out additional funds for that targeted enforcement, where we’ll get an unmarked vehicle. We go out driving down the roads where we try to spot these vehicles and and get them stopped because those are those are a big danger on our roadways where our attention and our focus needs to be on driving.
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