"Specialist teams" are in route from the U.S. Fatality estimates are now around 300. I think that would make it the most deadly incident in N.Z. history.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10708156Mayor Parker urged people to stay at home, saying the city was effectively "closed" for at least the next three days.
"We don't want you out driving and looking around. As we found in September those roads are lifelines."
Mr Hamilton said Australian search and rescue teams were due in Christchurch early this morning.
Mayor Parker said specialist teams were coming from Japan and the United States and the BBC is reporting that the United Kingdom is sending a 62-strong search and rescue team with more than nine tonnes of equipment.USAID (foreign aid) issued a release:
http://www.usaid.gov/press/releases/2011/pr110221.html
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