Emergency Management is a very specialized discipline. In most cases emergencies are handled by local emergency management agencies like the counties and cities. But at times when a larger response is called for, State and even Federal intervention is called for to coordinate multi jurisdictional responses. This is where the system failed in this case. Where was FEMA and/or the State Emergency Management Agency. I’ll tell you - AWOL.
Emergency Management is a very specialized discipline. In most cases emergencies are handled by local emergency management agencies like the counties and cities. But at times when a larger response is called for, State and even Federal intervention is called for to coordinate multi jurisdictional responses. This is where the system failed in this case. Where was FEMA and/or the State Emergency Management Agency. I’ll tell you - AWOL.