一 | Sophie 编译 在过去几周发生了多起房屋火灾后，奥克兰南区的居民被敦促安装火灾警报器或检查警报器是否工作。 昨天在Coronation Rd一座教堂附近发生了大火，这是最近三周Māngere地区发生的一系列火灾中的最新一起。 BANGKOK -- The first group of Thai workers evacuated from Israel after the past few days’ bloody events in southern Israel and Gaza arrived Thursday in the Thai capital of Bangkok, greeted by anxious relatives and senior officials.Hamas militants stormed through a border fence Saturday and killed hundreds of Israelis in their homes, on the streets and at an outdoor music festival. The Israelis have responded with punishing airstrikes and preparations for a possible ground invasion. The conflict has claimed at least 2,600 lives on both sides, including some Southeast Asian workers living in Israel.The 41 Thais who returned home on a commercial flight of the Israeli airline El Al included two men wounded in the violence who had to use wheelchairs to exit the aircraft.Farm laborers from Thailand seek work in more developed countries where there is a shortage of semi-skilled labor — at wages considerably higher than they can earn at home.Tens of thousands of workers in Israel from nations including Thailand and the Philippines send their earnings home to support their families. That money also helps to fire up their native countries’ economies.But the appearance of Thais and Filipinos on the lists of dead, wounded and missing in the past few days is a reminder that foreign workers toil in peril of their lives.About 30,000 Thais are working in Israel, according to the Thai Foreign Ministry, and about 5,000 of them live in the southern area near the border with Gaza.One of them, Katchakorn Pudtason, said his employer at the farm where he worked initially herded all his workers into a bunker when Saturday's attacks took place, but after they left it for lunch they could still hear shooting. As they were being driven back to their workplace, Katchakorn heard more gunshots and felt something hit his knee, he said.“I thought it was a rock but it went through. So I hit the truck and told the driver to drive away,” he said. He added that he was one of four people in the vehicle who suffered injuries that day. He was one of the two returnees who had to use a wheelchair.Thailand's Cabinet ministers for labor, defense and foreign affairs were at Bangkok's international airport for the evacuees' arrival. The government has vowed to look after the evacuees' physical and mental well-being.Foreign Minister Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara said 5,990 Thais have registered to be evacuated and officials are working around the clock to accommodate them.“We need a Plan B to take out as many people as possible,” said Defense Minister Suthin Klangsaeng. “We will use military aircraft to evacuate people from the high-risk area to a third country, such as (the United Arab Emirates).”The number of Thais affected by the tragedy stood out in lists of non-Israeli nationals affected by the violence: Thailand’s foreign ministry Thursday said 21 Thais are believed dead and 14 wounded. Sixteen were believed to have been taken hostage.Survivor Chatree Chasri left his home in northeastern Thailand in 2019 to work in Israel as an agricultural laborer to pay off debts and provide for his wife and two children back home in Nakhon Phanom. Foreign work is a common path for Thais from the country’s economically disadvantaged rural areas, especially the northeast.Working under a government-to-government agreement, the 38-year-old has been farming tomatoes and cauliflower for the past four years in the southern Israeli town of Mivtahim, less than 10 kilometers (6 miles) away from Israel’s border with Gaza.Despite the occasional shelling and rocket attacks that sent him running for cover, his life at the farm had been OK until Saturday, he said from Israel in a phone interview with The Associated Press. Now he says he wants to come home, and never go back to Israel.Chatree was shot several times in his hip shortly after Hamas launched its rocket attacks and shock ground offensive into southern Israel, killing hundreds of people and capturing more than 100 who were hauled back to Gaza as hostages.Chatree was using a toilet at the farm where he works with other foreign laborers when he suddenly heard gunshots.“The sounds came closer and bullets went through the wall of the toilet,” he said, recalling the moment he was hit. He then saw two gunmen making their way into the workers' living quarters and open fire, so the workers fled outside to hide.Vibhavadi Vannachai, a Thai expatriate who has lived in Israel for nearly two decades and is coordinating with Israeli authorities to help the Thai workers, fears the number of victims may rise.Vibhavadi, originally from Nong Bua Lamphu province in Thailand’s northeast, works as an interpreter in a legal office whose cases mostly involve resolving disputes between Thai workers and their employers.She said abuse and violations of their rights are common, with many bound by years-long contracts but cheated of their wages. Many are forced to work long hours and are beaten if they refuse. Some have to live in “quarters that are not fit for human beings,” she said.Vibhavadi helped find temporary accommodations for Chatree and Padoong Bootmo, a 26-year-old Thai worker shot on Saturday who said the potato and yam farm where he works in Yesha was raided twice by gunmen and then burned down. Padoong said in a phone interview he had been able to send 40,000 baht ($1,100) home each month. He might under the best of circumstances make less than half that doing the same job in Thailand, but he said he doesn’t want to stay in Israel anymore.The killing of at least two Filipino foreign workers underscored the threats also faced by those workers in Israel. About 30,000 Filipinos live and work in the country many as caregivers who look after the elderly, the ill and those with physical disabilities, according to the Philippines' foreign ministry. The huge income they send back home, which last year amounted to an all-time high of $36.14 billion, has helped keep the country’s fragile economy afloat.One of the two Filipinos killed Saturday was a caregiver who was shot with her employer inside their house by Hamas gunmen, according to the Philippines Embassy in Israel. The other was killed under still-unclear circumstances.At least three Filipinos remain missing, embassy officials have said.Still, Foreign Undersecretary Eduardo de Vega said Wednesday that no Filipino has asked to be repatriated from Israel. Jeremiah Supan, a 34-year-old Filipino caregiver in Israel, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Wednesday that he made it clear to Philippines officials he did not want to return home. As the family breadwinner, he sends his earnings home to enable his 10-year-old son to remain in school and sustain other loved ones."The rocket firings continue” Supan said. “But if I leave, all that assistance that I send to my family back home will be lost.”___Gomez reported from Manila. Associated Press writer Grant Peck contributed.。 Advertise with us 上周一，消防和紧急服务部门接到报警，称位于Māngere East的Massey Rd上的一栋公寓楼发生火灾。 一周前，消防人员还接到过报警，并前往了附近的Vine St的一处大型房屋火灾现场。在此两个多小时前，他们曾接到呼叫，附近Onehunga地区Church St的一处房屋着了火。 在那场大火中，一人受了轻伤，被送往医院。
二 | 11月12日周日晚上，消防队员忙于扑灭Favona地区Walmsley Rd上一栋联排别墅的大火。据报告，几天前在Māngere山顶也发生了火灾。 据悉，昨天凌晨的大火导致10户家庭无家可归，着火的房屋没有安装火灾警报器。
三 | 火灾警报器能拯救生命 Māngere-Ōtāhuhu地方委员会主席Tauanu’u Nick Bakulich说，这是一个及时的提醒，提醒家庭检查家中是否有烟雾警报器，尤其是在圣诞节即将到来的时候。 “这是一件悲惨的事情，尤其是在节日来临之际。这些人将面临挑战和心痛。” “感谢上帝，没有人员伤亡。我们正在想着那些失去家园和财产的家庭。
四 | ” “这是一个关键信息——安装火灾警报器。你检查过它们是否工作吗？有电池吗？” Tauanu 'u说，他和其他一些当地社区的成员昨天去了被疏散的家庭所在的教堂。 这座名为Siasi Tokaikolo ' ia Kalaisi ' Api ko Nasaleti的教堂在当地汤加社区非常有名，在Māngere也很出名。 太平洋健康和社会服务提供商The Fono和由前拳击手转变为社区倡导者的Dave Letele的Brown Buttabean Motivation（BBM）组织为受影响的家庭带来了食品包、衣服和其他用品。 社区机构立即作出反应 听说了他们困境的普通民众也带着衣服、食物和床上用品来到教堂捐赠，一些人还来捐了现金。
五 | Tauanu 'u说：“社区立即做出了反应和回应。” Kennedy Fakana 'ana ' -ki- fualu因帮助社区中有需要的人而被称为“汤加罗宾汉”，他也在被困的人当中。 他感谢Letele和BBM团队在接到简短的电话后迅速反应，提供了食物和物资。 “他们马上给了我们装有冻肉、面包和这10个家庭所需的一切的食品包。” “这证明像BBM这样的社区组织总是在那里，而且速度很快。
六 | 我们也不能坐等救援。” 警方表示，他们将继续调查这场火灾的情况，但证实他们并未将其视为可疑事件。
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