{"id":104157,"date":"2017-09-20T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=104157"},"modified":"2017-09-20T10:31:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T14:31:00","slug":"coe-begins-evacuations-for-hurricane-maria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/09\/20\/coe-begins-evacuations-for-hurricane-maria\/","title":{"rendered":"COE begins evacuations for Hurricane Maria"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_104136\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-104136\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-104136\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Juan-Manuel-Mendez-COE-7-Dias-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-104136\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juan Manuel M\u00e9ndez \/ 7 Dias<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As part of disaster mitigation efforts, the Emergency Operations Commission (COE) said that evacuations of people from vulnerable areas in Santiago and the northern region began on Tuesday, 19 September 2017. General Juan Manuel M\u00e9ndez, director of the COE, said that alerts for nine provinces have been issued. When the announcement was made the provinces of La Altagracia, El Seibo, Hato Mayor, Saman\u00e1, Espaillat, Mar\u00eda Trinidad S\u00e1nchez, Puerto Plata, Montecristi and La Romana, and Saona Island were in yellow alert. They are now in red alert.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCitizens need to cooperate with the authorities to avoid tragedies,\u201d said M\u00e9ndez. He said that there were no deaths in the Dominican Republic with the passing of Hurricane Irma because of the prevention measures taken.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2017\/09\/19\/482958\/coe-inicia-hoy-evacuaciones-por-poderoso-huracan-maria\" target=\"_blank\">Listin Diario<\/a><\/p>\n<p>20 September 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of disaster mitigation efforts, the Emergency Operations Commission (COE) said that evacuations of people from vulnerable areas in Santiago and the northern region began on Tuesday, 19 September 2017. General Juan Manuel M\u00e9ndez, director of the COE, said that alerts for nine provinces have been issued. When the announcement was made the provinces &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/09\/20\/coe-begins-evacuations-for-hurricane-maria\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}