Typhoon Aid Gridlock Paralyzes Epicenter of Damage in Philippines -- New York Times
TACLOBAN, the Philippines — Typhoon relief gridlock threatened to paralyze rescue operations in the most devastated part of the Philippines on Wednesday, with aid piling up but few ways to distribute it, plentiful gasoline but no merchants willing to sell it, and an influx of emergency volunteers but no place to house them.
The intensifying frustrations of delivering aid five days after Typhoon Haiyan struck elicited a plea from the top United Nations relief official to the mayor of Tacloban, imploring him to persuade gas station owners to open so relief convoys can begin a large-scale expansion into the razed port city of 220,000 and the interior regions. The gas stations have fuel in their tanks, but the owners fear theft and violence if they reopen.
“We have to have fuel, so we have to have some kind of refueling center,” the relief official, Valerie Amos, told the mayor, Alfred S. Romualdez, at a public meeting after she flew here for an assessment.
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