Over 1,000 Bahamas residents evacuated after Dorian

Relief efforts were underway in the Bahamas on Saturday after swaths of the nation were decimated by Hurricane Dorian.

In places like the Abaco Islands there appears to be hardly anything left but debris, prompting evacuations. On two of the commonwealth’s largest islands “everything has been devastated,” Ellison Thompson, deputy director general of tourism and aviation, said on MSNBC Saturday afternoon.

“We’re having to go door-to-door in order to determine who’s there and who’s not there,” he said. “We’re very sad about the loss of life.”

In Marsh Harbour, crews from the Miami Fire-Rescue Department expected to find bodies, not survivors, according to NBC News reporting on the ground.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection is using its Air and Marine Operations to deliver food and water to Fox Town on Little Abaco Island, the agency tweeted Saturday

“The situation is pretty dire here,” college student Kristoff Strachan on Grand Bahama told MSNBC by phone Saturday. “It’s just a lot of people trying to get out.”

Minyvonne Burke, Anthony Cusumano and Kerry Sanders contributed.

source: nbcnews.com