Craig Fugate
Craig Fugate
William Craig Fugate is the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Orphaned as a teenager, Fugate propelled himself into emergency services in Alachua County. As Florida Director for the Emergency Management Division, he oversaw the "Big 4 of '04" and as the Administrator for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, he organized recovery efforts for a record of eighty-seven disasters in 2011...
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Florida feels we owe a great debt to our neighboring states.
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The earliest we're going to see significant impact from the storm appears to be Friday afternoon, but people should not wait, ... It's time to act.
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Many of the field hands who manage, pick and process these crops will be impacted through the loss of their jobs,
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It's easy to play the blame game, find a scapegoat, but no one person could be responsible for the challenges we face and the lives lost.
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Also know FL is providing law enforcement. Need all you can send. Public safety major concern (looting etc.) Have used Dixie Co. body bags (250) got more?
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You're in a phenomenon ... it's sort of like a hurricane, you're not going to stop it with what the (existing) resources are.
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Our goal is to move not hundreds of miles, but tens of miles.
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The last thing you would want is to have people housed in shelters, or later in trailers and mobile homes that would be the first things you have to evacuate in the event of another hurricane,
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Max was very concerned that this hurricane was going to cross the state, that the winds were going to go far inland.
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The state does not have the capability to provide financial assistance to disaster victims.
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We'd be looking at what differences there is in the population, building codes. Is it construction or people action? Why did people evacuate in one part and not another? . . ..
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We've got roughly four to six million people right now who are experiencing hurricane or tropical storm-force winds.
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Use caution. This is still a very dangerous situation.
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The previous hurricanes had depleted the national supply.