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Articles from the AJC
Push to send FEMA trailers to Haiti stirs backlash
…self-serving attempt to dump inferior American products on the poor.The 100,000 trailers became a symbol of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's bungled response to Katrina after people who lived in them following the 2005 storm became ill. Formaldehydecan…
Ex-FEMA worker pleads guilty to $721K fraud
…Miss. — A former Federal Emergency Management Agency worker and her cousin have pleaded guilty to orchestrating one of the biggest Hurricane Katrina scams to become public since the 2005 storm.Former FEMA employee Lashonda Booker, 35, and her cousin, Peggy…
Shah steps into spotlight in Haiti relief efforts
…former development officials, including Atwood, whom he met with three times, and James Lee Witt, the former Federal Emergency Management Agency director who is credited with restoring the department's reputation after a period of turmoil.Many in the development…
New tech tools help Haiti quake relief
…messaging. Organizations including the International Red Cross, the United Nations, the World Bank and the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency have put the systems to use.Tim Schwartz, a 28-year-old artist and programmer in San Diego, feared upon learning…
New Web-based relief tools emerging to help Haiti
…and enabling urgent cell phone text messaging. Organizations including the International Red Cross and the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency have put the systems to use.Tim Schwartz, a 28-year-old artist and programmer in San Diego, feared that with…
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Failed retaining wall contributed to Maggie slide
…official state of emergency, which allows it to ask for state and federal disaster assistance. Officials with the Federal Emergency Management Agency had been expected at the site on Monday but the visit was pushed to Wednesday. None of the homes damaged or…
Elsmere training paramedics with grant
…- Four Northern Kentucky fire departments will get more than $350,000 in federal money the Federal Emergency Management Agency announced Monday. The money is part of $1.4 million award to fire departments and emergency responders in Kentucky through the Department…
Les Sterman: A one-man levee road show
…to the public, including: The consequences of doing nothing could be dire, Sterman says, especially if the Federal Emergency Management Agency implements new flood zone insurance maps by January 2011. The maps are based on the idea that existing metro-east…
Area fire departments receive equipment grants
…said her department has received three grants in the past seven years. According to officials with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which oversees the grants, the money must be used for improving the departments through the purchase of equipment, vehicles…
Chemung and Steuben counties get federal emergency funds
…Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Program, chaired by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has awarded Chemung County with $54,459 and Steuben County with $66,164 to supplement emergency food and shelter programs within those counties. The money…
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At least 20 people so far have been able to use this program to tell their families in the U.S. that they're OK
all the developers I'd ever worked with.
go everywhere on the Internet, and it would be very hard to actually find people and get back to their loved ones.
Developers, crisis mappers and even Internet-savvy folks can actually make a difference.
It really is amazing the change in the way crisis response can be done now
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