Chris Barrow
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910 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 26 Jun
Chris Barrow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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How well prepared is Venezuela for seismic activity?
Because it's not the first time.
It's far from the first time.
There's a combination, really, of parts of a place like Caracas that are very well prepared with modern buildings, sort of well resistant for earthquakes and built up to code, and obviously whole swathes of the city that are very informally built, creeping up the hillsides of the Avila National Park,
the well-known shanty towns, the barrios, where homes are made of bricks.
There's plenty of parts of the city that are very vulnerable to earthquakes.
It's just a question at this stage of working out how much of those have been affected.
And is the emergency service response quite good in these kinds of situations there?
Is the access good?
Again, it's relative.
I mean, the economic crisis in Venezuela over recent years has meant everything has been stretched to breaking point.
Ambulance services, fire services, all these sorts of things are not what they once were as the sort of oil money ran out during the Maduro regime.
Things, I think, have been improving a little in recent years in terms of the economy, and they're certainly well trained.
They are very, very experienced in that regard.
So I think there is good personnel on the ground there.
and then it's just a question of whether or not they've been dispatched to the right parts of town.
Will Grant.
Now to Washington, where celebrations for the United States' 250th birthday have officially begun.
The 4th of July this year marks two and a half centuries since the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
Donald Trump opened the Great American State Fair in Washington, an exposition across the capital which will celebrate various aspects of American culture and history.
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