Wardens yank dogs from Katrina zone

[jpak]

http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/state/060311wardens.shtml

The handlers of Buddy and Raider, a pair of cadaver-sniffing dogs from the Maine Warden Service, cut short their trip to New Orleans this week after days of searching through toxic sludge amid thousands of rats for bodies left behind by Hurricane Katrina.

It wasn't the difficult work, said Sgt. Roger Guay of Greenville, who along with Warden Wayde Carter had spent two weeks in the city in December. This time, Guay said, the Federal Emergency Management Agency's body recovery program lacked organization and logistical support, posing a danger to the men and their dogs.

He said the low point came Tuesday night, when the men were locked out of their hotel rooms and told they couldn't get back in until they filled out paperwork requesting federal assistance as flood refugees.

Guay said they refused to fill out the forms, and when the problems couldn't be resolved, he moved his unit back to Maine.

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[rodeodance]

1. it is good that the cable news gave this time.

[TomInTib]

5. Thing is, about all that cable time...

was aired AFTER Tuesday when they had been evicted from their rooms and there was not one effing mention of that particular outrage.

Bastards

[LaurenG]

2. OMG

It just gets worse and worse. :wtf:

[redphish]

3. They wouldn't want all of those bodies found just before the elections

They've got enough problems as it is.

[havocmom]

7. DING DING DING! We have a winnah! redphish nails it!

spot on redphish! Welcome to DU :toast: Will look forward to reading more from you! :hi:

[pinto]

4. Outrageous.

Department of Homeland Security is a tragic crony pork barrel joke on America.

"I've pretty much lost faith in FEMA," Guay said. "(There is a) lack of progress, a lack of common sense. The command structure is sucking up all the money and the work just isn't getting done."

[FormerDittoHead]

6. OK - they have to fill out the forms NOW but NSA now has 45 days??

The new wiretap law now gives BushCo full, unlimited license to listen to whomever they want to for 45 days before notifying another branch.

But these guys have to sleep in the street if they don't get the paperwork done NOW...