Butch Kinerney
Butch Kinerney
Butch Kinerney is Chief of Communications for the Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration of the Federal Emergency Management Agencyand an expert in risk and crisis communications. He served as acting press secretary for FEMA in 2005-2006, rising to the position immediately following landfall of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. During Katrina and the ongoing recovery in the Gulf Coast, he was quoted more than 30,000 times in the press, from Katrina's first landfall in Florida throughout the tumultuous fallout from FEMA's...
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Residents should not be worried that the flood insurance program is insolvent. Be assured, we're not going belly-up, and we're not going away.
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I think that certainly FEMA bent over backwards to try to make this very specialized request happen as quickly as possible. The most important thing is, there are 13 alleged bad characters off the streets.
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We don't want to put in trailers or houses without utilities. We're talking about miles and miles of lines down.
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We've bent over backward to reach out. We've gone door-to-door to all of the 25,000 hotel rooms no fewer than six times. And there are individuals who have refused to come to the door, refused to answer. There are people who have run when they saw us coming -- those are the ones that are now moving on.
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To our knowledge, this is the first time a state has set aside housing or space for housing for future disasters.
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This will open the door for short-term emergency needs as well as long-term recovery needs for all of those affected by the Texas wildfires during this very dangerous and tragic wildfire season.
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We're ready for Wilma and, whatever the storm brings, we're set to go.