Public Accountability Requires Citizen Action (disasteraccountability.org)
The July 7th House Homeland Security Committee hearing “FEMA Housing: An Examination of Current Problems and Innovative Solutions” brought up many crucial points about disaster housing - one of the most unresolved problems in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and subsequent storms. Most of the questions were directed at FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate and Department of Homeland Security […]
In his opening remarks at Wednesday’s hearing of the House Committee on Homeland Security, FEMA Housing: An Examination of Current Problems and Innovative Solutions, Committee Chairman, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), called FEMA’s National Disaster Housing Strategy (Strategy), “a plan to make a plan.” While this idea had been expressed many times in the […]
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 […]
On Wednesday, April 22, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is set to confirm Craig Fugate for FEMA’s top spot. The Disaster Accountability Project is asking Craig Fugate, the President’s FEMA Administrator nominee, to explain how he plans to fix FEMA before he is confirmed. The bungled response to Hurricane Katrina underscores the […]
CNN and All Headline News are reporting some flooding in New Orleans’ as Hurricane Gustav pummels the Louisiana coast. Both the Lower Ninth Ward and Upper Ninth Ward have been named as flooding sites. In addition, the New York Times reports street flooding in the southern Louisiana parishes of Terrebone and Lafourche. […]
Southern Mississippi leaders were just told, as Hurricane Season began, that FEMA would no longer deliver ice after disasters as it had in the past.
According to Mary Hudak, a regional FEMA spokesperson, free ice will only be available for medical emergencies and life saving reasons.
We want to make sure we’re providing ice as a life-saving […]
The Government Accountability Office recently conducted an audit of the implementation of improved evacuation procedures for special needs populations by the DHS and DOT and found that four of the six major points had NOT been “substantially implemented” as of this spring. The audit found that the FEMA’s role was not sufficiently clarified in the […]
Hurricane Katrina demonstrated that some major disasters can exceed the response/relief capacities of the American Red Cross (ARC) and other Emergency Support Function #6 (ESF-6) Mass Care Providers (described in the National Response Framework (NRF) Annex).In response to post-Katrina lessons realized, the NRF shifted primary ESF-6 Mass Care Responsibilities from the ARC to FEMA (Before/After […]
Next to rescue efforts in the face of imminent harm, recovery – bringing life back to normal or something close to it - is the most important post-disaster activity. But, recovery is typically given short-shrift by emergency planners, and federal participation is likely to decrease now that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has […]
In the past week, we have seen two nations, overwhelmed with disasters, refuse foreign offers to provide rescue teams and other emergency aid. Sounds familiar doesn’t it? Following Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. government also refused foreign aid. Reluctantly, it accepted some, but left much of it to rot in warehouses. […]
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