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Arizona State Treasurer Dean Martin

                   

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                       Contact:   (602) 604-7880

August 29, 2008                                                                             

 

                                                    STORM DAMAGE RECOVERY & RELIEF UPDATE

(STATE CAPITOL, PHOENIX) –  This is an update to the earlier notice of relief and recovery efforts by local and state emergency officials.  We will continue to provide additional details as needed.

A cooling station has been established by the Red Cross at Arcadia High School's Auxiliary Gym 4703 E Indian School Road which will open at 3:30pm.  The Red Cross is prepared to convert it to a shelter if needed tonight.  The public should call The Grand Canyon Chapter of the American Red Cross at 800-842-7349 for more information.  

Power has been restored to the Highland Manor nursing home/care facility at 4635 N 14 St.

APS crews have been brought in from Casa Grande, Cottonwood, Prescott and Snowflake to assist with restoration efforts. They are working diligently to restore services as quickly as possible and customers will be restored throughout the day as repairs are made.  Given the extent of the damage, it is likely some customers will remain without power past today. 

  Current Status:

• APS customers have been advised that they can go to grocery stores to purchase 20 pounds of dry ice for their refrigerators/freezers and APS will reimburse them for the expenditure.  
• Approximately 9,700 customers are currently without power.   Restoration efforts ongoing.  Some areas may have their power restored within the next hour; however, there are other sites that may still be without power well into this weekend.
• Maryland Gardens Care Center - nursing home/care facility at 31 W Maryland - no ETR (estimated time of restoration) at this time - Phoenix Fire Dept is on site.
• Phoenix Art Museum (extended outage may impact some of the art on display) - no ETR

"Critical-type" facilities that are currently impacted:

 

Medical & Health Services

*          Three outpatient services at St. Joseph’s Hospital ****POWER RESTORED****

*          Hospice nursing center at 15th Avenue and Thomas Road****POWER RESTORED****

*          Salvation Army Rehab at 27th Street and Van Buren Street****POWER RESTORED****

*          Phoenix Children's Hospital ****POWER RESTORED****except to Administration building; reports of water damage

*          Highland Manor at 15 th Street and Thomas Road-power crews onsite working to restore power ****POWER RESTORED****

 

Phoenix Union High Schools

*          Metro Tech HS at 1900 W. Thomas ****POWER RESTORED****

*          Fire & Police Academy at 1645 W McDowell ****POWER RESTORED****

 

Madison Elementary Schools - cancelled school for the day

*          NE Corner 16th Street & Missouri

*          Between 3rd Ave & Central, north of Maryland

 

Phoenix Fire Stations

*          Sta 4 at 1601 N 3rd Ave.

*          Sta 10 at 2731 N 24 Dr. ****POWER RESTORED****

*          Sta 17 at 1531 E Missouri ****POWER RESTORED****

Phoenix Water Dept facilities

*          6015 E Cholla

*          629 E Las Palmaritas

*          500 E Thomas

*          19th St & Mtn View

Phoenix Art Museum is without power.  No estimated time of restoration at this time.

ASU Indoor Practice Field

ADEM staff has contacted ADOA and ASU on the state facilities that were damaged. The indoor practice field is being investigated for its collapse ($8.4million to build).  Other damages were 4 buildings with roof damage and 10 buildings with water inside.  They should have a report on the collapse by Tuesday.   

State Treasurer Dean Martin is the Chief Financial Officer for Arizona, third in succession to the Governor.