FEMA’s Plan to Make States Pay More for Disasters
By : Mary Greeley News
Published On: 2016-12-16
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December 15, 2016 – It’s one of the many ideas and practices that Craig Fugate, the agency’s outgoing leader, hopes the Trump administration will adopt. Among the others: rescuing pets......
But it wasn’t just pets that were treated as an afterthought when Fugate first came to FEMA.
Emergency planners often focused their attention on serving able-bodied adults. In fact, FEMA required planners to address the “easy” issues in their main plans and all of the “harder” cases separately. That meant officials were making separate contingency plans for helping seniors, children and people with disabilities.
“My question was, ‘Who the hell are you planning for? That’s over half your population,’” said Fugate.
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