Where is the Red Cross is setting up emergency shelters?
I want to make clear I pointed out these shelters not saying they are connected to the Chinese people, but because of how they show increased security after 9/11.
There is no indication they were set up in response to today's events. Of course, they may have been.
http://www.wpbfnews.com/news/4105466/detail.html
Shelters Prepared In Case Of Inaugural Emergency
Emergency Shelters Are Within 200 Miles Of Washington
POSTED: 5:27 pm EST January 18, 2005
BETHEL TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- A school in Pennsylvania's Susquehanna Valley is one of a number of shelters the American Red Cross is setting up in the event of an emergency at Thursday's presidential inauguration.
It's the first time the Red Cross has taken such extensive precautions for an inauguration.
"We try to plan for any type of emergency that may occur," said Dawn Vitez, with the American Red Cross.
Tuesday was a regular school day at Northern Lebanon High School, but the building is ready to take on an important role should there be some type of disaster at Thursday's presidential inaugural.
"It would be for people who have had to leave their homes suddenly and have nowhere else to go," Vitez said.
"What we have to do is make sure our building is open and available," Superintendent Don Bell said.
"The shelters are being established within a 200-mile radius outside of Washington, D.C.," Vitez said.
The reason Northern Lebanon High School was chosen is that it is very close to two major roads --
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