{"id":21078,"date":"2009-10-01T09:31:04","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T16:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=21078"},"modified":"2009-10-01T09:43:20","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T16:43:20","slug":"surfing-surfaid-launches-an-emergency-response-appeal-for-padang-earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=21078","title":{"rendered":"Surfing Fundraiser &#8211; SurfAid launches an Emergency Response Appeal for Padang earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21079\" title=\"surfaid\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/10\/surfaid.jpg\" alt=\"surfaid\" width=\"490\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/surfaid.jpg 490w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/surfaid-150x92.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/>SurfAid has launched an Emergency Response Appeal to help the people of Padang who were hit by a huge earthquake (7.6 on the Richter scale) on Wednesday 30 September.<\/p>\n<p>Our Program Director, Dr David Lange, narrowly escaped death as he fled the Ambacang Hotel, which then collapsed, killing many and trapping others.<\/p>\n<p>Many buildings have been destroyed with people caught underneath the rubble.\u00c2\u00a0 There is a report that schoolchildren are still trapped underneath three schools.\u00c2\u00a0 One hospital is destroyed and another so badly damaged that staff are working in tents outside. Doctors used car headlights and torches to operate on the injured overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Dr David Lange said:\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153People are trapped and screaming for help but they are below huge slabs which will take heavy equipment to move.\u00c2\u00a0 I saw dozens of the biggest buildings collapsed in town, most of the damage is concentrated in the commercial centre market, which was fully packed.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Any donations you can make are greatly appreciated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Please donate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfaidinternational.org\/site\/pp.asp?c=ekLPK4MOIsG&amp;b=5493943\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SurfAid has launched an Emergency Response Appeal to help the people of Padang who were hit by a huge earthquake (7.6 on the Richter scale) on Wednesday 30 September. Our Program Director, Dr David Lange, narrowly escaped death as he fled the Ambacang Hotel, which then collapsed, killing many and trapping others. Many buildings have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fundraiser-andor-volunteer","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21078"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21083,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21078\/revisions\/21083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}