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Northern Mariana Islands, rocky shoreline

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[Assignment: 48-DPA-SOI_K_Saipan_6-5-07] Pacific Islands Tour: Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne [and aides] to Saipan Island, of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands [48-DPA-SOI_K_Saipan_6-5-07__DI10976.JPG]

AmeriCorps Disaster Response Team supported a large-scale volunteer event in Chalan Kanoa in coordination with United for Saipan and the LTRG (CARE).The AmeriCorps Disaster Response Team members trained and led 25 volunteers in canvassing the Chalan Kanoa neighborhood with two goals in mind: to bring to light the community's unmet needs, and to determine work sites for the Saturday and Sunday volunteer events. Over Saturday & Sunday, volunteers went through the neighborhood to gather debris for removal, collected information from additional clients about their unmet needs, and received training on client intakes for unmet needs. In total at this event, 77 client intakes were completed, 140 cubic yards of tin & vegetative debris were removed, and a total of 391 volunteer hours were logged by 117 volunteers supporting the Cleanup events over Friday, Saturday & Sunday.

Captured Japanese Planes on Saipan Island After Invasion Operations

Marshall Islands

Jack Synnott, Hazard Mitigation Branch Director, conducts an on-location radio interview with Gary Sword from KKMP at the True Value in Saipan. FEMA Hazard Mitigation specialists have been answering questions at True Value Hardware, ACE Hardware, and Do It Best Hardware stores in an effort to help Typhoon Soudelor survivors build back better and stronger. They are providing information for preventing damages to your home and for protecting your family from typhoons and flooding. Hazard Mitigation is any action taken to reduce or eliminate the long term risk to people and property from natural disasters. Hazard Mitigation projects may include, but are not limited to rebuilding, flood-proofing, and building stronger.

STS080-748-086 - STS-080 - Earth observations taken from Space Shuttle Columbia during STS-80 mission

Photograph of American Ships and Landing Craft Approaching Saipan

An aerial port bow view of the amphibious assault ship USS SAIPAN (LHA 2)

Fighting Faces

World War II – Saipan