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Friday, September 09, 2005

FEMA Foibles!

'Same Mike Brown, Different Day' Via Think Progress:

A refresher: the 2003 wildfires lasted seven weeks and burned three-quarters of a million acres. The billowing smoke was easily visible from space. By the time they were extinguished, 3,600 homes had been destroyed, 22 people were killed, and $2.5 billion in damages were amassed.

How did Brown perform? The reviews of his work may sound familiar:

Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and some other California members of Congress have criticized the Federal Emergency Management Agency for not declaring a disaster area in Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego counties last spring because of the bark beetle infestation.

The bugs killed drought-stricken trees over 415,000 acres of forest, making them particularly prone to fire. On April 16, [then-Gov. Gray] Davis wrote to President Bush urging a disaster declaration. Eight days later, Boxer, Feinstein and 10 House members from Southern California — seven of them Republicans — urged Bush to approve the request.

The request was passed to FEMA, which turned it down last week. [San Jose Mercury News, 11/1/03]


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