Disaster plan - The Federal Goverment
Federal Protective Service (FPS)
will show up to provide law enforcement and security services to all federally owned and leased facilities nationwide. FPS focuses directly on the interior security of the nation and the reduction of crimes and potential threats to federal facilities. They secure federal properties like courthouses, federal office buildings, but not ordinary citizens.
National Center for Disaster Fraud at (866) 720-5721 or emailed to disaster@leo.gov. Information can also be faxed to (225) 334-4707.
Federal Contractor Misconduct Database http://www.contractormisconduct.org/
National Center for Disaster Fraud to Coordinate Hurricane Irene Fraud Complaints FEMA's Disaster Registration
America's Vulnerable Cities - These articles are especially instructive, particularly as to the difficulties of evacuation.
BUT to do that on the website you must be JavaScript Enabled and use Internet Explorer version 6 or call 1-800-621-FEMA (3362) or (TTY) 1-800-462-7585 to register." Fema Rap for Kids - no kidding!
Homeland Security Emergencies & Preparing America
Homeland Security National Response Plan
The NRP establishes policies, procedures, and mechanisms for proactive Federal response to catastrophic events. Implementation of Proactive Federal Response Protocols are for catastrophic events involving chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or high-yield explosive weapons of mass destruction, or large magnitude earthquakes or other natural or technological disasters in or near heavily populated areas.
You will have Looters. Police will also loot and Scammers that are not real charities.
Convention on
the
Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide Adopted by Resolution 260 (III) A of
the United Nations General Assembly on
9 December 1948.
FEMA - mapping and analysis center
Everyone needs to vote. Government policies have life and death consequences. This is
about the real consequences of what governments do and do not do about their responsibilities. And we pay
the price for those policies. State and local officials do not think that have to plan because they
assume
FEMA is in charge, and FEMA doesn't think it has to be a first
responder because that is not their mission. March 2003: FEMA is downgraded from a
cabinet
level position and folded into the Department of Homeland Security. Its mission is refocused on fighting
acts of terrorism. FEMA's preparation and planning functions are reassigned to a new
Office of Preparedness and Response. FEMA will henceforth focus only on response and
recovery.
Remember, we don't have one government. We have 50 separate governments, and one federal government to
help them interoperate. We can't solve every problem at the federal level. You have to be ready to
save
yourself and then help your neighbor.
"This American Life." http://thislife.org public radio program source
FEMA Had Authority to Act, even without Emergency Declaration
William Nicholson, author of the books "Emergency Response and Emergency Management Law" and
"Homeland Security Law and Policy" says that once the governor asks for help, and the president
declares a state of emergency, the feds basically have the broad powers to do what's necessary. And,
he
says, even if the President hadn't declared a state of emergency, the head of the Department of
Homeland
Security, Chertoff, could have acted. There's this whole newfangled way for him to take emergency
powers
under something called the National Response Plan. Nicholson: "Well, basically, the way it works is,
the Secretary of Homeland security designates this as a catastrophic incident, and federal resources
deploy
to preset federal locations or staging areas, and, so they don't even have to have a local or state
declaration in order to, uh, move forward with this."
Glass: In other words, it doesn't matter what the governor says, it doesn't matter what the local
people say, basically, once that happens, they can just go ahead and do, what needs to be done to fix the
problem.
Nicholson: That's correct. It's utterly clear that they had the authority to preposition assets
and
to significantly accelerate the federal response.
Glass: And they didn't need to wait for the state? Nicholson: They did *not* need to wait for the
state.
According to the nations disaster response plan, the Federal government could have activated special
powers
to push their assets into affected areas without waiting for state requests. This, despite
administration
claims that they were forced to follow the states lead. (The powers were never invoked, needless to
say.)
DHS failed to use catastrophe response plan in Katrina's wake By Chris
Strohm The Homeland Security Department did not use a plan
for handling catastrophes in its response to Hurricane Katrina, even though some officials say that
doing
so could have saved lives and brought the chaotic situation in New Orleans under control.
The department didn't activate a section of the National Response Plan that deals specifically with
responding to catastrophes, DHS spokesman Russ Knocke confirmed this week. The section -- called the
Catastrophic Incident Annex -- is tucked deep within the 426-page plan, which was published last
December.
The Catastrophic Incident Annex, however, gives the federal government special powers, including the
ability to bypass state governments. But Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff or one of his
designees has to approve use of the annex.
That was not done during Hurricane Katrina. Instead, the federal government and state of Louisiana got
caught up in negotiations over what kind of federal assistance would be provided in the first few days
after the storm hit, while thousands of people were stranded in New Orleans and others died in hospitals,
nursing homes and their houses.
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Data Center
map of the region that features information on recent earthquakes in California and Nevada. Learn about
the
local faults and recent activity along each fault.
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HUMOR:
A flood came and a man had to climb onto the roof of his house. As the waters rose a neighbor in a rowboat appeared, and told him to get in. "No," replied the man on the roof, "the Lord will save me." Then a firefighter appeared in a speedboat. "Climb in!" shouted the firefighter. "No," replied the man on the roof, "The Lord will save me." A helicopter appeared and the pilot shouted that he would lower a rope to the man on the roof. "No," replied the man on the roof, "the Lord will save me." Eventually the man drowned and went to heaven, where he asked God why He hadn't helped him. "I sent a neighbor, a firefighter, and helicopter," said God. "What more do you want?"
"Somebody asked Bush what he thought about Roe v. Wade. He said didn't care how people got out of New Orleans."