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...liable for unnecessarily closing hotels and other businesses, according to the article. That was a practical, if coldhearted, calculus in a city like New Orleans. "Any place that has a lot of tourists, it's very expensive to evacuate," says Kate Hale, who was director of emergency management for Dade County, Fla., when Hurricane Andrew struck in 1992. "It costs $1 million a coastal mile to evacuate. You're shutting down businesses. It's not something you do casually...
...Gulf last week, some of FEMA's bumbling could have been an attempt to compensate for its haste last year after Hurricane Frances struck Florida. The agency ran afoul of federal auditors after it paid $31 million to residents of Miami-Dade, which was 100 miles south of the hurricane...
...victims should start receiving food, water, ice and medication. "If you are not visible within 72 hours, you will have chaos," says Joe Myers, who was Florida's emergency director from 1993 to 2001. That was a lesson from Hurricane Andrew, when there was looting in parts of Miami-Dade County for at least a month after the storm. "Every minute counts. Every second counts," says Mayor Joseph Riley, who led Charleston, S.C., through Hurricane Hugo...
...Miami-Dade County State Attorney's Office is still ruminating over whether to charge DeFede with the unlawful taping. In the meantime, the Herald says it will continue to pay for any legal representation that DeFede may need. DeFede still holds out hope that he can get his old job back. He bemoans the fact that he never spoke directly with Fiedler before he was fired. (Fiedler says that he had hoped to speak to DeFede but said that airport security had taken his cellphone away as he was going through the checkpoint prior to boarding. That's when Diaz...
Golon's biggest challenge, and only partial disappointment, was former Miami Dolphin Mercury Morris of Super Bowl VIII, now serving a 15-to-20-year prison sentence on drug charges in Florida. "To get approval for a picture session in the Dade County correctional institution, I had to phone the head of the Florida state department of corrections, the penitentiary superintendent and Morris' lawyer, many of them several times," she says. "Four hours before the shoot they decided we could take the pictures, but Morris couldn't wear the jersey." Though the prison permitted Photographer Red Morgan to cart...