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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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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We've got roughly four to six million people right now who are experiencing hurricane or tropical storm-force winds.
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We've got roughly 4 to 6 million people right now who are experiencing hurricane or tropical storm-force winds.
goal move
Our goal is to move not hundreds of miles, but tens of miles.
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The approaches to bridges are at the greatest risk of scouring from the storm surge. The National Guard is going to take a Hummer with satellite communications and drive all the way down to Mile Marker 0. They're just waiting for the winds to start dropping.
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The previous hurricanes had depleted the national supply.
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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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Unlike the public and business is prepared, government cannot do this alone.
potential storm time
This storm has some potential to it. The time to go is now.
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This naturally occurring event has overtaken our ability to stop its progression.
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To me the risk of what happened in Mississippi and what happened in Louisiana is always the worst-case scenario.
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We're slowing the process down. A large-scale disaster will occur and there will be another hue and cry about why we were not able to get the aid faster.
question
We're going to have every pump, every sandbag out there. The only question is where do we put them.
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Until we really understand why people ... don't prepare and what it takes to get that message across, then I think that's going to be our challenge.