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Posted: 2020-01-20T15:03:21Z | Updated: 2020-01-20T15:05:15Z

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) Gov. Wanda Vzquez fired the heads of Puerto Ricos housing and family departments Sunday in the latest fallout over the discovery of a warehouse filled with emergency supplies dating from Hurricane Maria.

The removal of Housing Secretary Fernando Gil and Department of Family Secretary Glorimar Andjar came a day after the governor fired the director of Puerto Ricos emergency management agency. Vzquez fired him hours after a Facebook video showed angry people breaking into the warehouse in an area where thousands have been in shelters since a recent earthquake.

There have been actions by government officials that have been completely unacceptable, the governor said Sunday.

Vzquez said she decided on the additional firings after meeting with leaders of her administration Sunday morning and officials were unable to provide information she requested about other collection and distribution centers.

They werent able to personally tell me specifically where these centers were located, what they contained and whether an inventory was completed, she said.

Vzquez did not elaborate on why Gil and Andjar were singled out, saying only that she had lost confidence in them.