Yep. I heard a call from the mother of a firefighter who said her son
and the other volunteers from his station were put up in a hotel,
given FEMA t-shirts and told to hand out flyers.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Sep 7, 2005, at 8:10 PM, Walt Wayman wrote:
> And while we're on the subject of the gross incompetence of the
> folks at FEMA, this just in:
>
> "Not long after some 1,000 firefighters sat down for eight hours of
> training, the whispering began: 'What are we doing here?'
>
> "As New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin pleaded on national television for
> firefighters - his own are exhausted after working around the clock
> for a week - a battalion of highly trained men and women sat idle
> Sunday in a Sheraton Hotel conference room in Atlanta. . . .
>
> "The firefighters were told to bring backpacks, sleeping bags,
> first-aid kits and Meals Ready to Eat. They were told to prepare
> for 'austere conditions.' Many of them came with awkward fire gear
> and expected to wade in floodwaters, sift through rubble and save
> lives.
>
> "'They've got people here who are search-and-rescue certified,
> paramedics, haz-mat certified,' said a Texas firefighter. 'We're
> sitting in here having a sexual-harassment class while there are
> still victims in Louisiana who haven't been contacted yet.'"
>
> Like Forrest Gump, that's all I've got to say about that.
>
> Walt
>
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