Fire crews are fighting a blaze at the hospital tonight after what witnesses describe as a chemical being released inside. At least ten people are confirmed dead, and the number is expected to rise.
Governor Diane Carrow says evidence shows Coral Island brought down aircraft over Los Santos during the riots and the earthquake to win the contract to rebuild the city. The President of the United States has signed off on the findings, and a federal warrant has been issued for Coral Island's President.
Director of Emergency Services Owen Fairbanks has set aside State funds for a programme led by Fire Chief Cole Walker to support firefighters affected by what they see on the job. The fire department's budget is going up, and law enforcement officers across San Andreas will get free health insurance.
Fire, ambulance, sheriff and police agencies will have to file written uniform policies, answer State inspections in writing and treat officials professionally, under a regulation that comes into force on 26 October. It also limits what the State can do to them.
An armed suspect was shot and is down after an exchange of gunfire with two sheriff's deputies near Paleto Bay. Weazel News has obtained aerial footage of the scene from an anonymous source.
Governor Diane Carrow and President Lucy Alvarez faced the press together. President Alvarez said the rebuild will take at least six months to a year.
Read the coverageOur live coverage of the Los Santos earthquake has ended. Life is slowly returning to normal in Blaine County, but Los Santos remains closed. Read how it unfolded.
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While the rest of San Andreas waits out the curfew and the evacuation zone, one unknown driver is still hauling freight. Weazel News drones followed their rig deep into Los Santos.
A fire chief who was shot and got back up. An officer reportedly suspended for defending the people around her. Two deputies who never stopped working, and a captain paying for evacuees’ motel rooms out of his own pocket.
Less than a day after Governor Carrow promised every resident $10,000, the State says payments started on Monday and are being made automatically. In the motel car parks, phones are already buzzing.
In its first statement since the quake, the Governor’s office suspends every form of disaster assistance, reclassifies hundreds of deaths, puts Captain Kellow’s motel payments under investigation and hands “abandoned” homes to Maze Bank, Merryweather and Dynasty 8.
Checkpoints on every route out, troops on the streets, and airports told to prepare to close. Residents fear they may be forced to stay.
Unmarked vans and National Guard trucks filmed leaving City Hall, heading north. Staff told to report to Paleto Bay by tonight.
President Lucy Alvarez says the launch was a weapons test to keep the island safe, that no live ammunition was fired, and that residents’ money would not be spent testing it.
Readers say the head of Coral Island’s government and owner of Rigged has been seen in the cordoned city with a blonde woman Weazel News has not identified, and in Paleto Bay. The State says it has “no further comments”.
Hours after taking office, the new Governor tore up the 26 September statement, revoked the “presumed abandoned” rule, cleared every first responder and dismissed Chief of Staff Harlan J. Mercer. Then she apologised, and said she is coming to Paleto Bay.
Less than an hour after Weazel News published leaked State papers, the Office of the Governor confirmed that he died at Fort Zancudo at 03:47 on Saturday, hours before the State called him “safe, well rested”. Lieutenant Governor Diane Carrow has taken the oath as the 41st Governor of San Andreas.
An internal notice and a medical log seen by Weazel News say the Governor suffered a heart attack as the quake struck and died at Fort Zancudo, hours before the State called the Governor “safe, well rested”. The death has not been confirmed.
Weazel News has obtained the Preservation Teams’ own inspection tally and a confidential utilities briefing. Thursday can open some doors, but rebuilding the city in a week is physically impossible: engineers say it will take at least a year, and far longer in the east.
The Preservation Teams working inside the evacuation zone say residents could be allowed back as soon as Thursday 1 October. Free buses are scheduled to leave Paleto Bay at 10am that morning for anyone who wants to go home.
A man shouting in Hebrew and yelling “Palestine isn’t real” swung at an off-duty Sheriff’s Department member and was knocked to the floor. Moments later a second fight broke out when another man kicked a customer’s pug in the face.
A crash, a claim that jets can’t be shot down, a Guard that now calls it a training flight, and a Governor who says no aircraft was lost. Everything so far, in one place.
The San Andreas Office of Emergency Management tells every household to prepare now. We publish the advisory in full.
More than two hundred micro-quakes have been recorded under La Mesa and Murrieta Heights this week. Experts now put the chance of a magnitude six or greater at one in five.
