NationStates Jolt Archive

**BREAKING NEWS**

Mount Penn, the volcano that began emitting huge blasts of smoke and ash this morning, violently erupted just 1 hour ago, burying the city of Hartville, along with townspeople, who had returned to their homes, after Mt. Penn fell silent for a few hours. An area for 160 miles has been quarantined by National Guard, and local police forces, around the mountain.

Hartville Mayor John Alexander: "The destruction is massive. I don"t even want to think about the number of lives lost."

President Callaway addressed the nation briefly after the destructive volcano destroyed Hartville.

"We pray for all of the victims of this horrible tragedy. We also pray for the families and friends of those lost. At this time, emergency management officials, along with police, fire department, medical, and military personnel are in Hartville. We ask that you pray for them as well in this time of need."

The Democratic Empire would like to offer assistance in your time of need. We can have relief crews there in a few hours, both military and civilian.

We pray for those lost in the blast, and hope we can help in saving those who are trapped.

The Commonwealth of Northford, as an ally of Cravan, would also like to pledge aid, the offer will be substantial, once final details are worked out.. (and I've had some sleep... it's 11:45 pm BST)

Dear President Callaway,

The Royal Parliament of the High Kingdom of Atruria sends the condolences of our People. If he could, I am sure that the High King, would be doing so in our place. However, he is currently incapacitated to do so. We would normally send both physical and monetary aid. Unfortunately, due to our own internal problems, we will not be able to send any aid. For now, we offer you our moral support, in the hopes that we can send you aid in the future.
Faithfully,

Lord Darren Baldwin,
President,
Royal Parliament,
Atruria

His Majesty, King Justinian, has sent the 2nd Fleet and 3 extra hospital ships. Also we will paradrop and helo in medics and civilian aid workers with your approval

-Lord Hammouth, International Aid Minister

Five heavy transport catamarans arrive near the coastline of your nation. If you will accept our help we will do the following. They are going to set up a portable cloth skycraper command center to help coordinate the rescue.
http://archrecord.construction.com/innovation/3_BuildingTech/0310TechTransfer.asp . This is followed by the offloading of bulldozers and other heavy construction equipment to help clear the town of debris. Finally the last catamaran offloads 300 medical personnel, 300 construction experts, and 400 relief workers. The final transport catamaran offloads a 700 tons of food and 3 100 ton seawater purifiers. Also six rescue helicopters will fly off the top of the catamarans.

We accept any and all assistance the international community may provide, and we thank you for it.