A one-time $10,000 buys a full relocation package: Coral Island residency and a house of your own in the island’s new town. Only 30 places are available, and applicants keep their US citizenship. Applications are open now.
President Lucy Alvarez says the launch was a weapons test to keep the island safe, that no live ammunition was fired, and that residents’ money would not be spent testing it.
Rockets have been fired from Coral Island and landed in the sea off its coast. It is not yet known whether they were live weapons or dummies. The Office of the President of Coral Island has not replied to Weazel News.
Governor Diane Carrow says crews, cargo ships and Puerto Coral's deep-water harbour will be put to work on the city. Coral Island's President, Lucy Alvarez, says her island is glad to help and has given Weazel News a full statement.
The Guard says the aircraft is not its own, was flown by personnel associated with the Government of Coral Island and was on “an authorized training flight”, with no live fire. It does not say who authorised the flight, and will not say whether the Office of the Governor was told.
Governor Diane Carrow and President Lucy Alvarez faced the press together. President Alvarez said the rebuild will take at least six months to a year.
Read the coverageOur live coverage of the Los Santos earthquake has ended. Life is slowly returning to normal in Blaine County, but Los Santos remains closed. Read how it unfolded.
Read the coverageResidents and readers say a military aircraft registered in Coral Island has been seen over the town where thousands of Los Santos evacuees are staying. Coral Island’s government says the flight was for “training purposes”. The Air National Guard has been asked for comment.
While the rest of San Andreas waits out the curfew and the evacuation zone, one unknown driver is still hauling freight. Weazel News drones followed their rig deep into Los Santos.
A fire chief who was shot and got back up. An officer reportedly suspended for defending the people around her. Two deputies who never stopped working, and a captain paying for evacuees’ motel rooms out of his own pocket.
Less than a day after Governor Carrow promised every resident $10,000, the State says payments started on Monday and are being made automatically. In the motel car parks, phones are already buzzing.
In its first statement since the quake, the Governor’s office suspends every form of disaster assistance, reclassifies hundreds of deaths, puts Captain Kellow’s motel payments under investigation and hands “abandoned” homes to Maze Bank, Merryweather and Dynasty 8.
Checkpoints on every route out, troops on the streets, and airports told to prepare to close. Residents fear they may be forced to stay.
Unmarked vans and National Guard trucks filmed leaving City Hall, heading north. Staff told to report to Paleto Bay by tonight.
In a reply to Weazel News, the military confirms for the first time that Governor Richard Ashcombe died at Fort Zancudo at 03:47 on Saturday, and that its own personnel worked through the night alongside the clinicians treating him. It does not say who it told, or when.
Readers say the head of Coral Island’s government and owner of Rigged has been seen in the cordoned city with a blonde woman Weazel News has not identified, and in Paleto Bay. The State says it has “no further comments”.
Weazel News has obtained the Preservation Teams’ own inspection tally and a confidential utilities briefing. Thursday can open some doors, but rebuilding the city in a week is physically impossible: engineers say it will take at least a year, and far longer in the east.
A crash, a claim that jets can’t be shot down, a Guard that now calls it a training flight, and a Governor who says no aircraft was lost. Everything so far, in one place.
The San Andreas Office of Emergency Management tells every household to prepare now. We publish the advisory in full.
More than two hundred micro-quakes have been recorded under La Mesa and Murrieta Heights this week. Experts now put the chance of a magnitude six or greater at one in five.
