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DHS secretary Christie Noah discusses the Texas Flood response
During a press conference on Saturday, Home Security Minister Christie Neo discussed the federal response to the Texas Flood disaster, which took over 119 lives on the fourth of July. (Credit: WTSP via NNS)
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Secretary of Internal Security Christie is calling On Saturday, the federal response to the deadly floods in the Texas -Hill country last weekend was a good testimony to improving the response to the disaster that the Trump administration seeks to provide.
Destructive floods on the fourth of July took at least 119 lives, and more than 150 others were missing. Among the killed were 27 girls who visited the mystic camp along the Guadalupe River in Hunt, Texas.
“What you saw from our answer in Texas will be much as president (Donald) Trump It provides for what (the Federal Emergency Agency) (FEMA) will look like in the future, ”Nema said during a press conference on Saturday.
“In response, we did things in Texas, completely different than Joe Biden.”
DHS secretary Christie Noah and Governor Greg Frawbat discuss constant efforts with recent floods along the Guadalupe River during a press conference in Ingrome, Texas, July 5. (AP Photo/Rodolfo Gonzalez)
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In response to a decline in Ohio in Ohio in Eastern Palestine, the Biden administration said the chemical catastrophe did not meet the legal requirements of the FEMA Declaration, waiting for two weeks to place a team to assist.
In the fires of Maui in 2023, more than 100 people were killed, and historical lahain was reduced to rubble. The survivors were left without food, water and shelter.
At the time, FEMA administrator Michael Brown called the President Joe Biden Answer to the deadly fires “broken failure”.
The residents of Caroline Anthony and Laura Broder were supplanted by looking for personal belongings in the rubble of forest fires, which destroyed their house on October 5, 2023 in Lahain, Hawaii. (Mario Tama/Getti Image)
Slow answers and lack of assistance were also widely reported after Hurricane Helen struck the North Carolina, Georgia and South Carolina at the end of 2024.
“I will also sign the executive order to begin the process fundamentally reform and FEMA’s overhaul Or maybe get rid of FEMA, ”Trump said in January, visiting North Carolina. – I think, frankly, fema is not good.
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Search and rescue groups work in Kervil, Texas, July 9. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)
Nom noted that during the last catastrophe federal assistance was on Earth in Texas as soon as the flood struck.
“We have deployed our Coast Guard, Helicopter (Aircraft) and Swift Water Rescue Teams from Customs and Border Protection,” she said. “Ours (border patrol tactical block) (Bortac) that I like to call the department On internal security Ninja specially trained for such situations when unprecedented. “
After the flood, Nom said she immediately met Texas Gov. Greg Abbot And he talked to him about the signing of the Main Declaration of the Catastrophe.
For an hour, she asked, she was approved by the White House.
President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump and Governor Texas Greg Abbot meet with a local emergency officer when they inspect the floods on Friday in the Guadalupe River in Kerwila, Texas. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
“We have previously deployed dollars in Texas so that they can make the best decisions by responding to people,” Noah said. “FEMA has never done this previously detailed dollars to the state so they can use it to save people so they can use it to go out and save their lives.”
Nom said the president wants the states to be provided with opportunities during emergencies.
“Emergency situations are locally fulfilled,” she said. “They are governed by the state, and then the federal government comes and supports you. (Nobody) ever wants to sit back and wait for someone from the federal government to appear and save you from home because it has not served people well under Baden’s administration in the past.
According to Nohem, Federal officials were immediately under President Trump, to help local and government officials manage the answer.
Many Texas flood sacrifices were confirmed by the dead families, including some girls who were missing from the mysticism camp when the Guadalpepe river flooded on July 4. (Fox News)
She added her belief that Fema “will stop existing as it is today.”
“We fundamentally reformed this agency,” Noah said. “President Trump may want in his prerogative how he loves to do, rename things. He can come up with a new name for this agency that reflects the major changes that will happen there. But this agency will no longer be a bureaucratic agency where people should wait for 20 years.
“It will be an agency that immediately tells this state, and this local emergency director:” What do you need? How can we support you? “And then trains them to have a set of skills so that they immediately serve their people, because they are always there faster.
It is unclear what a new agency could be.
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump listen to the first respondents and local officials at the Hill Country Youth Center in Carville, Texas, after observing the flood damage on Friday. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Asked about the reports of calls for Texas residents who do not respond, Nom replied that he was “throwing a bull —- flag”, saying he did not think it is true.
“I get rid of any contract that does not respond to people because they know what they can do it,” she said.
FEMA did not immediately respond to the Fox News Digital request.
