Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins declared the emergency in his capacity as director of the county's Homeland Security and Emergency Management and instructed the department to file a local disaster declaration with the state.

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"It may be prudent to focus instead on mobilizing all available resources and capacity for the emergency response efforts, " Ban said.

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Housing and social work emergency response teams will work at a reduced capacity.

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"We are naturally working to ensure that there is capacity for these patients in the emergency department and on our wards at Gloucestershire Royal, " he added.

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In New York City, roughly 2, 500 people had booked into emergency storm shelters, less than 4% of the total capacity, nearly 24 hours after Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered an evacuation of 375, 000 people from the city's low-lying areas.

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Other possible plans include rewarding firms for maintaining stand-by capacity to supply power to the grid in an emergency, and preventing the construction of new coal stations that do not have some way of capturing and storing their planet-heating emissions.

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Mr Carter said the lorry's rating capacity limiter, which measures lifting operations, and its emergency stop buttons were not working.

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Their economies have little spare capacity and no reason to keep monetary or fiscal policy at emergency settings.

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He's also directed emergency workers to begin airlifting Katrina's survivors to other states, saying shelters in Texas are near capacity.

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