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In 2005, when Katrina’s hurricane crashed into the Gulf coast, Fema fell. The reaction was slow, political and unchanged. The stages of someone without extensive experience in emergency management, fema collapsed under the weight of their mission. More than 1800 American lives were lost when the federal dam failed and chaos began. We needed almost two decades to recover, and some communities have never done.
As a country, we have promised never let it happen again. As the Bush administration Internal security Advisor Fran Townsend wrote in it Report on Catherine after action At the time, “when local and state governments are overflowing or incapacitated events that reached catastrophic proportions, only the federal government has resources and opportunities to respond. The federal government must plan, train and equip the requirements for a catastrophic event.”
For more than ten years, the country has made significant progress to strengthen the federal, state and local coordination and opportunities. We have reformed Fema, The necessary leaders in hiring with emergency experience, put into more elastic infrastructure, created stronger standards of construction and dangers, as well as financing that are of great benefit, fit into and coordinate better with state and local emergency training.
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But in just eight months Trump’s administration solves 20 years of heavy progress, squeezing FEMA and sorting through the federal government’s ability to predict, prepare and respond to catastrophes.
Twenty years after the hurricane Katrina, the reaction to the FEMA catastrophe again is a problem. File: A friend flooded with oil and water two weeks after the hurricane Katrina left, though the new Orleans, September 12, 2005. (Reuters/Carlos Barria)
Since his return to his post, President Donald Trump has been aiming at dismantling agencies responsible for keeping Americans safe during the catastrophe. He first suggested turning off Fema at all. The termination and voluntary department of Elon Musk -operations cut the FEMA staff by almost a third. Of the people left Hurricane Season. Trump even fired the first appointed administrator’s duties, saying that he thought Fema should follow, and the current acting administrator would not say whether Fema would exist.
FEMA Trump has canceled a $ 3.6 billion program for the construction of a stronger infrastructure – such investments that help communities improve drainage, elevate roads and houses, hardening infrastructure as power lines, and preparing for the future before fears.
In an agency that is sometimes known by bureaucratic processes, internal security secretary Christie is calling She began demanding her personal retreat for each FEMA grant or a contract of over $ 100,000, which in the modern plan is virtually all that causes delays that risk life.
In July, finished 130 people lost their lives In Kerwila, Texas, after the catastrophic floods, swept across the hill. During those Texas floods, FEMA could not expand the urban search and rescue groups in a timely manner because they had no design. There was no course correction.
What would it be if a large hurricane headed for our way? Who really thinks that the current FEMA administration is ready when we enter the peak of the Hurricane season?
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Despite the emissions of state and local officials, the experts in preparation for emergencies and the broad meteorological community, Trump will double. In a recent FEMA operative group, NOEM has once again confirmed that “Federal Emergency Management should be the state and the local, and that” all this agency should be eliminated as it exists today and transfer to the reacted agency. ”
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This does not stop only in Fema. Trump sailed the privatization of the NOAA and the national meteorological service, turning the rescue public alerts into paid services. Meanwhile, the weather forecasting opportunities are blurred. Entry in the Hurricane season, 30 out of 122 forecast offices across the United States no longer had major meteorologists.
Hurricane Katrina’s damage was devastating. Can Fema do better now? File: Mound of the underground transition on the interstate 10, near the city of New Orleans, flooded when the hurricane Katrina suggests the city with wind and heavy rain in 2005. (AP)
Squeezing FEMA and nomination of agencies responsible for the willingness to spontaneous disasters – saying that “states can do it” is not a plan. This is a federal refusal like Dad Deadbeat. The volume and scale of responding to large disasters, in particular, requires the possibility of financial, labor and federal government equipment. Even where state and local authorities can lead, our system is created to demand a strong federal partnership.
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Both the state’s legislator, the lieutenant, the mayor and the White House official, I was part of both good and bad respondents. If there is one thing I learned, it is: the answer and the recovery can be as strong as the preparation that goes before them. A good answer requires accurate command and control, communication, coordination, cooperation and cooperation, and most importantly, active and fairly ordered the federal government, which operates in partnership with state and local authorities.
The disasters will come, and thunderstorms are becoming more intense. We know this. But how we prepare, how we respond and how we help to restore the community – it depends on us. On August 29, we celebrated 20 years since Katrina’s hurricane. We cannot allow the story to repeat ourselves. Too much – and too many lives are at risk.
