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Subject: The Mind Continues to Boggle
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 18:47:02 -0400
From: Josh Hill <[email hidden]>
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Newsgroups: misc.writing
'Others who went out of their way to offer help were turned down, such
as Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, who told reporters his city had
offered emergency, medical and technical help as early as last Sunday
to FEMA but was turned down. Only a single tank truck was requested,
Daley said. Red tape kept the American Ambulance Association from
sending 300 emergency vehicles from Florida to the flood zone,
according to former senator John Breaux (D-La.) They were told to get
permission from the General Services Administration. "GSA said they
had to have FEMA ask for it," Breaux told CNN. "As a result they
weren't sent".
[ . . . ]
' "It's such an irony I hate to say it, but we have less capability
today than we did on September 11," said a veteran FEMA official
involved in the hurricane response. "We are so much less than what we
were in 2000," added another senior FEMA official. "We've lost a lot
of what we were able to do then".'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/03/AR2005090301653_pf.html
--
Josh
"This is a devastating storm. This is a storm that's
going to require immediate action now." -George W. Bush,
four days after Hurricane Katrina