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Residents in Puerto Rico were shocked when they discovered this warehouse in the city of Ponce early Saturday morning.
Ponce was one of the cities badly damaged after an earthquake earlier this month.
It’s also the city where our friends at Off The Grid Missions were going when we chatted with them yesterday.
When residents opened the warehouse doors, they were shocked to find it filled with water and boxes and boxes of emergency supplies.
What’s even more shocking: the supplies had been in the warehouse since 2017 when hurricane Maria devastated the island.
In a statement, Puerto Rican governor Wanda Vazquez Garced called it “unforgivable” that supplies are still in the warehouse.
She ordered an immediate investigation to be done within forty-eight hours and she fired the island’s head of emergency management Carlos Acevedo.
Acevedo denied allegations of mishandling the supplies.
He said no resident was denied any supplies from the warehouse.
But nearly 80 of the pallets were still there because they expired and he had no orders to destroy them.