APIPA issues colour-coded alerts to city residents on the risk of flooding and various agencies provide emergency shelter and rations to the displaced. APIPA is made up of approximately 300,000 members and has a network of over 5,000 doctors and healthcare facilities.
Titusville and other towns in the area boomed. One of those who heard about the discovery was John D. Rockefeller. Because of his entrepreneurial instincts and his genius for organizing companies, Rockefeller became a leading figure in the U.S. oil industry. In 1859, he and a partner operated a commission firm in Cleveland.
Dominated the steel industry in 1890, his companies could produce much more steel much faster so prices dropped around 50%. Worth hundreds of millions of dollars when he died. Believed in taxing large estates and donating money. Oil industry owner, by 1880's he controlled 90% of the oil industry. Gets discounts from railroads because they ship oil in high quantities. Are able to sell the oil for cheaper ruining the other competition. Also took competing companies under his control to take hold of the whole business. Died as the worlds first billionaire at 1981.