SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA / A news summary : The Regional Review / DEVELOPMENTS IN ORANGE, RIVERSIDE, SAN BERNARDINO AND VENTURA COUNTIES : Relief Cargo Heads for Victims of Turkey Quake
Five tons of medical supplies bound for quake-ravaged Turkey left Los Alamitos on Wednesday aboard a California Air National Guard cargo plane.
Dispatched from the Los Alamitos Armed Forces Reserve Center, the supplies will be delivered to mobile hospitals treating people injured in the 7.4-magnitude earthquake that shook the city of Izmit and surrounding areas last month. .
“I would like . . . to thank California and in fact the whole Western United States . . . for the helping hand that was extended,” said Turkey’s Consul General in Los Angeles, Hayri Hayret Yalav, who came to see the shipment off.
The cargo was a “symbol of our deepest sympathy for [the Turks’] tremendous pain,” said Michael Flores, Gov. Gray Davis’ secretary of foreign affairs.
The governor’s office was instrumental in obtaining the approvals necessary to get the supplies off the ground and into a state-operated plane, said Richard Walden, president of Operations USA.
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