Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard lambastes FEMA's response on NBC's "Meet the Press"
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9179790/Quote: We had Wal-Mart deliver three trucks of water, trailer trucks of water.
FEMA turned them back. They said we didn't need them. This was a week ago. FEMA--we had 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel on a Coast Guard vessel docked in my parish. The Coast Guard said, "Come get the fuel right away." When we got there with our trucks, they got a word.
"FEMA says don't give you the fuel." Yesterday--yesterday--FEMA comes in and cuts all of our emergency communication lines. They cut them without notice. Our sheriff, Harry Lee, goes back in, he reconnects the line. He posts armed guards on our line and says, "No one is getting near these lines." Sheriff Harry Lee said that if America--
American government would have responded like Wal-Mart has responded, we wouldn't be in this crisis.More than 1,000 firefighters from around the country, responding to a FEMA appeal for help on the Gulf Coast, are held in Atlanta for training as community relations workers for FEMA.
http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_3004197Quote: "There are all of these guys with all of this training and we're sending them out to hand out a phone number," an Oregon firefighter said. "They
are screaming for help and this day was a waste."
Firefighters say they want to brave the heat, the debris-littered roads, the poisonous cottonmouth snakes and fire ants and travel into pockets of Louisiana where many people have yet to receive emergency aid.
But as specific orders began arriving to the firefighters in Atlanta, a team of 50 Monday morning quickly was ushered onto a flight headed for Louisiana. The crew's first assignment: to stand beside President Bush as he tours devastated areas.
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