EARTHQUAKE / THE LONG ROAD BACK : Quake Refugee Shelter Opens in Las Vegas
A shelter for earthquake refugees from Southern California has opened in a Las Vegas recreation center, with one family already moved in.
“At least I feel a lot safer,” said 14-year-old Jason Barnett, whose family lost their Canoga Park apartment in Monday’s quake. “I hear there’s just mainly floods here.”
Jason, his mother, and a brother and sister caught a ride to Las Vegas with a friend Tuesday morning. They stayed with a relative until learning of the shelter at Sunrise Community Center.
Based on phone calls from fleeing Southern Californians, the Red Cross has prepared to handle 40 to 60 people at Sunrise and another recreation center, said Steve Hailey, disaster chairman for the American Red Cross in Las Vegas.
Thus far, it’s just the Barnetts, but Hailey said Thursday: “We’re expecting a lot more people . . . when word of the shelters in Las Vegas spreads.”
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