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  1. FEMA Delays (CBS News)
      "Internal documents which came to light on Tuesday reveal that Federal Emergency Management Agency director Michael Brown waited until about five hours after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast before he asked his boss to dispatch 1,000 Homeland Security workers to support rescuers in the region."

      "Brown, in asking Homeland Security Secretary Mike Chertoff to have workers sent to the hurricane zone, is also said to have given the workers two days to arrive."

      "The airline industry says the government's request for help evacuating storm victims didn't come until late Thursday afternoon."

      "Fire and rescue departments outside Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi were urged by FEMA not to send trucks or emergency workers into the disaster areas without an explicit request for help from state or local governments." 9-05

  2. -Editorial: Green Energy Works Better When Publicly Owned (ClimateCrocks.com)
      "Our new green energy future works very well as a non-profit utility, and doesn’t seem to be possible in the for-profit capitalistic system. Not all needed services work in the free enterprise model. Police, Fire departments don’t. Sewer and water systems don’t.

      "And electric utilities work better when they are publicly owned." 09-13

  3. First Responders Improvise to Stay Safe with COVID-19 Virus (OPB.org)
      "Coronavirus risk and ongoing shortages of personal protective equipment are leading fire departments around the region to rediscover the enduring truth of the idiom 'Necessity is the mother of invention.' " 04-20

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