6A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2005
HURRICANE WILMA
FEMA helps hospital relief
BY MELISSA TRUJILLO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PLANTATION, Fla. — A week after Hurricane Wilma, more than 1 million Florida homes are still without power and many doctors' offices remain closed, leaving hospitals swamped as the only source of medical care in some communities.
"You can't get any regular doctors on the phone. You can't get anything filled," said Tim Swett, 41. He waited five hours at one emergency room and finally left without help for a back problem he had aggravated while cleaning up his mother's yard.
It wasn't until he tried another hospital, where disaster teams were set up in tents to handle minor injuries, that he saw a doctor.
to help ease the medical crunch, the Federal Emergency Management Agency set up disaster medical assistance teams at four hospitals to help people with minor injuries, prescription medicine or those trying to follow up on routine medical care.
At Westside Regional Medical Center in Plantation, a team had seen 190 patients — including Swett — by Sunday morning after opening Thursday. The hospital had twice its normal traffic in the days after Wilma hit, said Chief Executive Earl H. Denning.
"They were being overrun," said Bill Wallace, who is commanding a team of 35 doctors, nurses and others working out of four tents set up in the hospital's parking lot.
hospitals' parish facilities. Wilma was the eighth hurricane to strike or swipe Florida in 15 months. The storm killed 21 people in the state after battering Jamaica, Haiti and Mexico with strong wind and rain, and then tearing across the Gulf and Florida's southern peninsula. In all, 38 deaths were blamed on the hurricane.
Memorial revisits Parks' legacy
DIVERSITY
BY SAMIRA JAFARI THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Rosa Parks was remembered Sunday by hundreds of mourners for her defiant act on a city bus that inspired the civil rights movement and helped pave the way for other blacks, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Cascades of roses surrounded Parks' casket in a chapel bearing her name at St. Paul A.M.E. Church, where she was once a member. A separate wing was opened for the overflow crowd and hundreds more stood outside.
Chris Gardner/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
"I was here when Rosa Parks started and I just wanted to be here when she departed," said the Rev. Joseph Lowery, who co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
An honor guard from the Maryland Transportation Authority Police carries the coffin of Rosa Parks away from the airplane and to a hearse at the Baltimore Washington International Airport in Linthicum, Md., on Sunday. Parks will lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C.
The body of the 92-year-old Parks, who died Monday at her home in Detroit, was to later lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C. No other woman has been granted that honor.
woman has been good at Rice said she and others who grew up in Alabama during the height of Parks' activism might not have realized her impact on their lives then, "but I can honestly say that without Mrs. Parks, I probably would not be standing here today as secretary of state."
Alabama Gov Bob Riley credited Parks with inspiring protests against social injustice around the world
"I firmly believe God puts different people in different parts of history so great things can happen." Riley said. "I think Rosa Parks is one of those people."
Parks was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. Among those who supported her was King, who led the boycott of the city's bus system that helped initiate the modern civil rights movement.
"She was a gentle giant," his son, Martin Luther
King III, said at the memorial.
"I think she had a defining stand in the civil rights movement," said Estella Jernigan, 20, a student at Troy University, before the service started.
Lowery and the Rev Jesse Jackson said the best way for blacks to carry on Parks' legacy would be to push
Congress to renew the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which they said would be in jeopardy when it comes up for review in 2007.
The Rev, Al Sharpton said when he arrived in Montgomery that he thought about "how if she had just moved her seat, how history might of changed."
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