Re: The Mind Continues to Boggle]

There are quite a few Cleveland Fire Fighters there waiting ... and waiting
.... and waiting .... while ppl die.
They went to help but they are being forced to take days and days worth of
classes.
I guess that just means for more dead floating bodies.
It just sickens me. It's not like the fire fighters are the average person
just trying to help out, these are seasoned and very well trained
professionals.



"Bob (this one)" <Bob@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: The Mind Continues to Boggle
> Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 18:47:02 -0400
> From: Josh Hill <usereplyto@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: joshuaphill@xxxxxxxxx
> 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


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