Photo By Dan Bailey | A pier off the Rhode Island Coast was snapped apart by Hurricane Sandy, as a Civil Air...... read more read more
RHODE ISLAND - Like their fellow Civil Air Patrol members elsewhere in the Northeast, Rhode Island Wing crews flew over their state's coast after Hurricane Sandy to provide photographs of the damage for the Federal Emergency Agency and its state and local counterparts.
"There are whole houses completely moved and places where houses are no longer there,” said the wing’s commander, Col. Benjamin Emerick. “There are a lot of boats mixed in, too.”
His wing has “been flying the past two days, in between the bad weather bands,” Emerick said Thursday.
The Rhode Island Wing has been averaging three-and-a-half flights a day, with multiple aircrews using the wing’s lone CAP plane Tuesday and Wednesday and generating about 600-700 digital damage assessment photos of the state’s storm-battered coastline, he said.
Wednesday morning, he said, FEMA’s director of operations for the state received a bird’s-eye view of the coastline courtesy of one aircrew.
In addition, aircrew members have used one of the Rhode Island National Guard’s Geospatial Information Interoperability Exploitation – Portable kits to provide live video of portions of the flights to the state Emergency Operations Center.
| Date Taken: | 11.01.2012 |
| Date Posted: | 11.02.2012 17:52 |
| Story ID: | 97206 |
| Location: | RI, US |
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