[MN] Gyeongju Earthquake

[Apingdaldal]

continuation of https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/mod...p?f=74&t=17103&p=192335&hilit=gyeonju#p192335

With still no aid coming from the South Korean government, the death toll has risen from 8,600 to 26,400 due to disease, starvation, crime, and suicide. More people are dying from disease due to the exponential increase of corpse which are still left decomposing on the earthquake debris. The makeshift graveyards created by the sruvivors were not enough to accommodate all the corpses of their loved ones.

The citizen of Gyeonju had slight hope when they heard that the previous Japanese government would be sending help. But these are only false hope, as no help arrived from the previous Japanese government.

With several weeks of hunger, thirst, and debilitation, coupled with extremely low morale due to disappointment and false hope, it would be just a matter of time that the citizen of Gyeongju will all get wiped out. Unless the Royal Family of South Korea finally get their acts together and help their citizens.


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Meanwhile in the Philippines, the Department of Foreign Affairs would start contacting the South Korean government, with the intention of offering them immediate humanitarian and disaster relief assistance.

@Joe

 

[Joe]

The local, province, and governmental response to the Gyeonju was unprecedented. Immediately after a royal decree, local firefighter and law enforcement departments would establish three zones of evacuation, one in Western Seokjang-Dong, Northern Hwangsong-Deong, and Southern Inwang-Dong. The evacuation centers would be well-known buildings in the areas, including places such as schools, still-standing hotels, and police precincts. They would only qualify for being an evacuation center if the buildings were still structurally sound, had running water and electricity, and were able to facilitate local rescue efforts. All citizens of Gyeongju who were willing to walk and able to transport themselves would be ordered to report to nearest evacuation center. At these evacuation centers, foods and blankets (donated by schoolchildren and families all around Korea) would be distributed and medical camps would be set up. An army of military doctors, civilian doctors, and university medical students would be deployed to each of these centers to assist in helping.

Minutes after that order had been given, a special phone call would be placed to the main electricity providers in the area, ordering that the electricity be shut off in order to facilitate rescue workers from having to deal with the potential hazards. Once the electricity companies complied, firefighters working in tandem with police and military would begin rescue efforts. A small army of dogs, trained in search and rescue, would be transported by air to the city of Geongju to assist in the rescue efforts, mainly to help find individuals who may still be trapped in buildings. While the time that had passed was extensive, rescue workers would remain optimistic that they would find survivors, or at least intact bodies that would allow families closure. A helicopter pad in each province would be cleared from rubble to allow helicopters to deliver supplies, such as medicine, food, water, and sometimes, even people, to the stricken cities. The KAI K-1 Surion would see it's first debut in law enforcement here.

Due to the high volume of air traffic, lack of facilities, and intense need for supplies, helicopters would be given a direct doctrine that would deal with how they were to land and distribute their supplies. Instrument flight rules would be in effect at all times, regardless of actual visibility. This was due to an intense amount of dust that was constantly shrouding the city from the earthquake. Each sortie would have only one chance to land at a helicopter pad and a maximum of three minutes to unload all of it's supplies before it was allowed to return to base. If they were to miss this opportunity, they would be ordered to return to their base of origin, where they would be slotted back into the flor. No aircraft would be allowed to stack. Rather, they would be staggered to allow supplies to be brought in more efficiently. Thus, the largest airlift operation in the history of domestic Korea would be born. At these stockpiles of supplies, they would be under heavy guard and transported to the evacuation centers and distribution points through the use of convoys.

Meanwhile on the ground, in a second royal decree, all individuals who did not serve in law enforcement or military would be forced to temporarily surrender their arms to the nearest police precinct. This was to disarm the people of Geongju after a psychologist from the University of Korea determined that the state of the city was one of anarchy... or soon-to-be anarchy. This order to disarm was to prevent any gangs or criminal organizations to form and prevent rescue workers from doing the work that they were there to do. Law enforement and military deployed to the city would be heavily armed and would outmatch any criminals anyways, but every little bit helped. In accordance with the royal decree, anyone found with a weapon on them would be detained and sent to a temporary penal work unit that was responsible for assisting in clearing rubble without question. Order would thus be restored.