Public Accountability Requires Citizen Action (disasteraccountability.org)
On Sunday, August 30, two LA County Firefighters were killed when their truck plunged 800 feet on Mount Gleason while attempting to rescue 55 inmates, three corrections officers, and other fire personnel from a fire-crew camp. The loss of two heroes in this tragic accident raises awareness of the state’s use of inmates to fight […]
Most members of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee missed a key opportunity to use Craig Fugate’s confirmation hearing as the next FEMA Administrator to help Americans better understand how FEMA will improve under his leadership.
On Wednesday, April 22, 2009, President Obama’s nominee to lead FEMA appeared before the Senate Committee led by CT […]
“The federal firefighting system is “imploding” in California, due to poor spending decisions and high job vacancy rates,” according to Casey Judd, of the Federal Wildland Fire Service Association, in an interview with The Herald, a Monterey County, California newspaper. As a result of the problems, “small fires have exploded into extended, multimillion-dollar conflagrations,” writes […]
Reports of dysfunction by Red Cross volunteers dispatched to Southern California for last year’s wildfires underscore the need for a close examination of what changes, if any, the Red Cross has made since Hurricane Katrina.
The San Diego Union-Tribune reported excessive and uncoordinated car rentals and hotel bookings, volunteer mismanagement, and overall waste of volunteer time/energy […]
This past week, the American Red Cross announced it is cutting one-third of the three thousand jobs at its National HQ in Washington, DC. According to ARC Chief Public Affairs Officer Suzy DeFrancis,
”We really need to reduce the size of our footprint in Washington and get back more to being a field-based, volunteer-driven organization,”
While I […]
Today, the crisis communications experts at Fineman PR issued their annual Top 10 PR Blunders List. Nine contenders, including the contaminated pet food crisis, Paris Hilton’s home confinement and Ellen DeGeneres’ dog adoption saga, were elbowed from first place by FEMA’s bungled news conference on the Southern California wildfires. The judges at Fineman offered this […]
After FEMA employees posed as journalists at an October 23 press conference on the agency’s response to the California wildfires, some expected heads to roll - particularly after DHS Secretary Chertoff promised to have “appropriate disciplinary action taken against those people who exhibited what I regard as extraordinarily poor judgement.”
That seemed to be the case […]
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