Terry Steed
Terry Steed
clean hurricane june katrina looking months pick season six start trying
Yes, I'm worried. We're looking at June 1 for the start of the season and we're still trying to clean up and pick up for Hurricane Katrina six months ago.
call cell determines encounters field german hispanic language line officer phone understand
If any officer out in the field encounters a Hispanic or a German and they can't understand each other, they take the cell phone and call dispatch and say they need the Language Line. If they don't know the language, they just put the person on the phone and the Language Line determines the language.
continuity experience fema folks later leave people replace training weeks
The FEMA people we first encountered (after Katrina) were not experienced people. And just as you got started with one, two weeks later another would come to replace them. They need to leave their people in place, and those folks need to have real training and experience so we can have some continuity working with them.
charge gain help people personal totally trying wrong
I think it's totally wrong to charge the sheriff. Right, wrong or indifferent, people were in need. He made no personal gain from anything he did; he was trying to help people. That's what we all were trying to do.