[Katrina] Daley 'shocked' at federal snub of offers to help
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- Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 21:58:29 GMT
>From the Chicago Tribune--
Daley 'shocked' at federal snub of offers to help
Tribune staff reports
Published September 2, 2005, 2:44 PM CDT
Frustration about the federal response to Hurricane Katrina has
reached Chicago City Hall, as Mayor Richard Daley today noted a tepid
response by federal officials to the city's offers of disaster aid.
The city is willing to send hundreds of personnel, including
firefighters and police, and dozens of vehicles to assist on the
storm-battered Gulf Coast, but so far the Federal Emergency Management
Agency has requested only a single tank truck, Daley said.
"I was shocked," he said.
"We are ready to provide considerably more help than they have
requested," the mayor said, barely able to contain his anger during a
City Hall news conference. "We are just waiting for the call."
The mayor's remarks came at the announcement of a city-sponsored
"Chicago Helps Fund," which will accept donations from citizens for
the hurricane relief effort.
"The people we see suffering on television are our brothers and
sisters," Daley said. "It's incumbent on all of us, as American
citizens and fellow human beings, to do our part to help them through
this terrible tragedy."
Donations to the Chicago Helps Fund can be made by cash or check at
any J.P. Morgan Bank One branch or by sending a check to Chicago
Helps, 38891 Eagle Way, Chicago IL 60678-1338. A toll-free telephone
number will be announced later for those wishing to donate by credit
card.
Additionally, this weekend, Chicago firefighters will "pass the boot"
at major intersections, and donations will be requested during the
Chicago Jazz Festival in Grant Park, Daley said.
Also, the Chicago Football Classic on Saturday will donate a portion
of its proceeds to the relief effort. And the Department on Aging is
sending a "Meals on Wheels" truck to the Gulf Coast region with food,
blankets and other necessities for seniors.
But the city is prepared to do far more, Daley said.
Even before the storm hit the Gulf Coast on Monday, he said, the
city's Office of Emergency Management and Communications had contacted
emergency response agencies in Illinois and Washington.
In the event of a disaster, the city offered to send 44 Chicago Fire
Department rescue and medical personnel and their gear, more than 100
Chicago police officers, 140 Streets and Sanitation, 146 Public Health
and 8 Human Services workers, and a fleet of vehicles including 29
trucks, two boats and a mobile clinic.
"So far FEMA has requested only one piece of equipment {ndash} a tank
truck to support the Illinois Emergency Response Team, which is
already down there," Daley said. "The tank truck is on its way. We are
awaiting further instructions from FEMA."
Tribune staff reporter Gary Washburn contributed to this story.
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