Public Accountability Requires Citizen Action (disasteraccountability.org)
In March 2009, the Disaster Accountability Project requested and/or reviewed the emergency plans of 22 parishes across South Louisiana to gauge the region’s disaster preparedness and planning readiness in advance of the 2009 Hurricane Season. After a number of destructive hurricane seasons, updated State and Federal disaster plans, frameworks, and annexes, and hopefully many lessons […]
By Sirrah Harris, Fordham Law Student
Note: This post was written on 1/9/09 during Fordham Law School’s Student Hurricane Network trip to New Orleans, LA to volunteer for the Disaster Accountability Project.
CERT stands for community emergency response team and it is just what it sounds like. CERTs are teams of ordinary citizens that have been […]
A week-long search has been going on in Shenandoah National Park for a missing man.NBC 29 TV, “Search for missing man expands,” (Oct. 5, 2008); Charlottesville Daily Progress, “Search for Staunton man continues,” (Oct. 5, 2008).
The Appalachian Search & Rescue Conference (ASRC) has been providing volunteers to assist local police and the National Park Service. […]
Yesterday, the Washington Post timidly reported that floods in Iowa and other Midwestern states may not be “natural” disasters . However, scientists have long warned that worsening floods are the predictable result of human intervention - of floodplains covered with impermeable concrete and stripped of vegetation; of river channels forced up and out of their […]
A passenger train spent ten hours quarantined in rural Ontario on Friday after one woman died on board and ten others fell ill with mysterious flu-like symptoms. The train was cleared to continue to Toronto after medical personnel were assured that the woman did not die from a contagious disease. The quarantine was one of […]
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