Amerika Samoa 1st Annual Disaster Resilience Summit
A special choir from the Governor’s Office sang hymns to start Thursday’s final day of the three-day Amerika Samoa 1st Annual Disaster Resilience Summit at the Gov. H. Rex Lee Auditorium.[photo: Dora Luamanu]
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A “moment of silence” was observed yesterday at the opening service on the last day of the three-day Amerika Samoa 1st Annual Disaster Resilience Summit to commemorate the 13 years since the deadly 2009 Tsunami claimed the lives of 34 local residents.
Alofau Methodist...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The U.S Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has dispatched three different teams to American Samoa, including a team working on public assistance following the Presidential declaration following the high surf, high winds, and flooding in the territory that...


![Participants from various government entities, with booths at the Amerika Samoa 1st Annual Disaster Resilience Summit, bow their heads during a “moment of silence” observed yesterday to remember the lives of the 34 local residents who died in the September 2009 tsunami. The summit was held at the Gov. H. Rex Lee Auditorium. [photo: Dora Luamanu] A MOMENT OF SILENCE](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/img_8242.jpg?itok=ZDj7b8hq)
![FEMA Region IX Recovery Division director, Robert Pesapane speaking Tuesday during the Public Assistance Program training session for participants for the Amerika Samoa’s 1st Annual Disaster Resilience Summit, hosted by the Office of Disaster Assistance and Petroleum Management (ODAPM). [photo: ODAPM] Robert Pesapane](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/fema_robert_pesapane.jpg?itok=IzccOjFi)