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The containers are not to bury the dead, because that would waste space and leave future contamination as likely. The containers are simply to transport the dead from where ever they happened to be killed from the biological agents, safely to the cremation ovens. Since you don't want to open them once they are sealer, they are not reusable, hence you need a lot. Simple.
Crossposted from our new home blog, They gave us a republic... Congress needs to ensure that FEMA's negligence in providing people with trailers with high levels of formaldehyde in them is not excused. The Federal Emergency Management Agency last week asked for immunity from lawsuits over the high formaldehyde levels in the trailers it used to house Hurricane Katrina victims. FEMA says it did not build...
Joyful Cynic links to this article regarding FEMA’s work in Chapman, Kansas. Short version: residents will be aided in rebuilding after a tornado, provided that they don’t build basements. Which, for non-midwesterners out there, is where you go when the tornado arrives.
Ruidoso requires $4.9 million in public assistance to make up for infrastructure and economic losses incurred during recent flooding, it was estimated by Federal Emergency Management Agency officials.
Undocumented immigrants have good reason to feat seeking federal assistance, with raids popping up all over the country, even those left in desperate situations in the aftermath of Hurricane Dolly feel safer keeping quiet. Since 2003, Federal Emergency Management Agency...
Although FEMA joined the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2003, the agency insists that undocumented residents of Willacy, Hidalgo and Cameron counties are at no risk of deportation if they seek the individual aid available through Thursday's presidential declaration. "Information is shared (between DHS departments), but only on a need-to-know basis," FEMA spokesman Don Jacks said. "We're not...
Baton Rouge, Louisiana - Two months ago, as he left the trailer park he called home after Hurricane Katrina, Alton Love, 41, just knew he was on the brink of getting a working car, an apartment and a good job to support the 9-year-old daughter he is raising on his own. Doris Fountain was in a comfortable hotel, waiting on a water heater and an air-conditioner for her once-flooded house in New Orleans....
“I know we’re behind the eight ball,” said Paul Rainwater, the executive director of the Louisiana Recovery Authority. “People talk about recovery, but on one level, we’re still responding.” The problems these families face are complex. Ms. Fountain, 65, could afford to fix the faulty repair work at her house if she had an award from the state’s Road Home program for homeowners. But Ms. Fountain’s...
When I returned from my semester abroad in Houston, in December of 2005, I found a lot of stuff that Don had rescued from people’s flooded houses, and all kinds of cleaning supplies that he had picked up from FEMA handouts. Among the supplies were about a dozen rolls of large, clear plastic garbage bags. [...]
After Hurricane Katrina pounded the Gulf Coast in August 2005, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) purchased more than $85M worth of basic supplies for the storm’s victims. For more than two years FEMA let the supplies sit in warehouses at a cost of $1M/year. During that same two year period local government officials and non-profit [...]
The Federal Emergency Management Agency now has the go-ahead to help residents from three Rio Grande Valley counties recover losses from Hurricane Dolly, and officials on Friday urged them to apply.
More than 90 percent of South Padre Island now has electricity, according to American Electric Power, and FEMA assistance for individuals was approved Thursday. “Power may be spotty in some areas, but overall The Island is back on its feet,”...
