Word: fema
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...ones whose Social Security checks were just about due, or those who made for the Greyhound station only to find it already closed, or those confined to bed or who used a wheelchair. "We're seeing people that we didn't know exist," declared Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) director Michael Brown in a moment of hideous accidental honesty. Rescue workers could hear people pounding on roofs from the inside, trapped in attics as the waters rose. The lucky ones were able to cut holes with knives and axes to reach the open air. Emergency workers hovered from house...
Around midnight on Dec. 26, Susan M. Briggs, a surgeon on the Harvard Medical School (HMS) faculty, received a telephone call from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), a branch of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security...
...Public health has never been terribly well-integrated into that larger set of agencies,” Marcus said, referring to the Department of Health and Human Services and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA...
Yaju Dharmaraja, a union organizer, said federal agents investigated him and his wife after they inquired about disaster response training through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA...
...Sources: FEMA, N.Y.P.D., F.D.N.Y., Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, McKinsey & Co., Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Justice Department, FBI, New York Times, USA Today, Atlantic Monthly