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npincus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 07:46 PM
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FEMA sends firefighters to hand out fliers and attend B*sh photo-op
http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_3004197

Fucking unbelievable, but then- not really. Brought to you by the most INEPT, INCOMPETENT, CORRUPT, CRUEL gaggle of IDIOTS and CRIMINALS. Ever.


As New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin pleaded on national television for firefighters - his own are exhausted after working around the clock for a week - a battalion of highly trained men and women sat idle Sunday in a muggy Sheraton Hotel conference room in Atlanta.

Many of the firefighters, assembled from Utah and throughout the United States by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, thought they were going to be deployed as emergency workers.

Instead, they have learned they are going to be community-relations officers for FEMA, shuffled throughout the Gulf Coast region to disseminate fliers and a phone number: 1-800-621-FEMA.


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"They've got people here who are search-and-rescue certified, paramedics, haz-mat certified," said a Texas firefighter. "We're sitting in here having a sexual-harassment class while there are still in Louisiana who haven't been contacted yet."

The firefighter, who has encouraged his superiors back home not to send any more volunteers for now, declined to give his name because FEMA has warned them not to talk to reporters.


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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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meg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 09:11 PM
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1. corpus christi FOX news station just had on 2
fire fighters talking about their NO adventure. They were pi**ed! The story line was that these guys would come back if they had real life saving work to do.

The on-air story was like the salt lake trib article only with interviewing 2 real guys.
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