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...flames blazed 400 miles away in New Orleans on Labor Day, about 600 fire fighters from across the nation sat in an Atlanta hotel listening to a FEMA lecture on equal opportunity, sexual harassment and customer service. "Your job is going to be community relations," a FEMA official told them, according to Joe Calhoun, an assistant fire chief from Portage, Ind., who was there. "You'll be passing out FEMA pamphlets and our phone number...
...scene in Atlanta was one of the many ways FEMA failed to live up to Katrina's challenge. First, despite being warned by multiple hurricane experts that Katrina would be a catastrophic hurricane, Brown waited until about five hours after the storm's landfall before he proposed sending 1,000 federal workers to deal with the aftermath. While people were dying in New Orleans, the U.S.S. Bataan steamed offshore, its six operating rooms, beds for 600 patients and most of its 1,200 sailors idle. Foreign nations--responding to urgent calls from Washington--readied rescue supplies, then were told...
...Back in Atlanta, Joe Calhoun and other fire fighters got tired of hanging around their hotel and returned home. --By Mark Thompson / Washington
...main reason AirTran is prepared for the turbulence: like the better-known JetBlue, its focus has always been on cheap tickets, low costs and reliable service. It offers the only low-fare business class in the industry. As a result, AirTran has stolen market share from Delta at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport--Delta's primary hub.Leonard and president Bob Fornaro built AirTran on the ashes of ValuJet, which suffered a fatal crash in the Florida Everglades in 1996. In 2003, when aircraft prices hit rock bottom, they made a decision that looks prophetic today: they ordered 100 fuel...
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