In many cases, emergency vehicles have become stuck while responding to requests for assistance,

At this point there's been no requests for our assistance. We are following this closely, and if the Russians are in a position where they believe we can offer some assistance, we will do that.

It's a safe place for them to come. In some cases we provide students with emergency school supplies. Sometimes we are there for them to celebrate a birthday with, to make sure they have a birthday cake.

[After that, residents would be able to get different types of federal assistance,] in some cases outright grants, in some cases low-interest or no-interest loans, ... And those problems will be coordinated through both our office and the governor's office.

We have found that the Ministry of Defence was slow in responding to the threat of improvised explosive devices and that delays in providing adequate medium-weight protected patrol vehicles should not have been tolerated.

An emergency exit had been tampered with.