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Region IX Administrator Visits Amanave Village in American Samoa

Amanave, American Samoa, November 13, 2009 -- Nancy Ward, administrator of FEMA Region IX, and Kenneth R. Tingman, FEMA’s federal coordinating officer in American Samoa, listen as Tusi Suiaunoa, chief protocol officer for the governor’s office, describes the damage and recovery in the village of Amanave. Many homes in Amanave were destroyed by the tsunami of September 29, 2009, but no lives were lost there. Elsewhere in American Samoa there were 32 confirmed deaths as of this date. Richard O’Reilly/FEMA.

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