Major John Adams, Company Commander, U.S. Army, describes how FEMA short-term housing packages and commodities are provided to the citizens of American Samoa impacted by the earthquake and tsunami.

DR-1859-American Samoa

FEMA

Currently today we���ve been assigned through the EOC a mission, a mission assignment, and that is to distribute and issue the relief aide supplies coming out of FEMA, Red Cross, and other government agencies.  As you see behind me, we staged the equipment, that, in the local villages based on the major and the chief guidance.  And we have a list of names that have been provided to us through the ASG, American Samoan Government, and also in coordination with FEMA, on the affected family members.  Those family members will come up to a booth, and based on the number of personnel or people in their family, they will be issued a kit.  A kit consists of items such as cots, tents, sleeping mats, blankets, a camp kit including a stove, fuel for the stove, lanterns, plastic silverware, things you would need to cook in a camping environment.  It also includes tarps, coolers, flashlights, batteries, ahh, to compliment what you would need to temporarily survive if your house was destroyed as many houses around here have been because of the tsunami on October 29.  So that���s what we���re doing here today.  The units that are assisting me are also with the 400th and the 411th engineer companies also stationed here in American Samoa, all Army Reserve soldiers are assisting FEMA.