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White paint dotted their khaki work pants and gray AmeriCorps shirts. The evidence of their volunteering even crept onto their faces and spilled on their hair. As 10 AmeriCorps volunteers at Camp Hickory Hill took a break yesterday afternoon, they said Columbia offered a different experience from disaster relief areas where they had worked, such as in Houston.
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The Disaster Relief Fund was launched to coordinate the collection and distribution of immediate relief (food, clothing, and shelter) and assistance to displaced citizens in Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida and Alabama. The NAACP has been actively engaged in providing relief to those hit the hardest and suffering the greatest loss. Thousands of NAACP members and volunteers have been mobilized across the nation to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical supplies, counseling, transportation and transitional services to displaced persons. From the NAACP Disaster Relief command centers in Baltimore, Jackson and Biloxi Mississippi, Baton Rouge, Houston and Fort Walton Beach, Fla., NAACP staff and volunteers are coordinating information and resources for thousands of callers. NAACP volunteers...
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HOUSTON - Saying they were caught off-guard by the number of people in need, FEMA officials closed a relief center early Wednesday after some of the hundreds of hurricane victims in line began fainting in triple-digit heat. The midday closing of the Houston disaster relief center came as officials in areas hit hardest by Hurricane Rita criticized FEMA's response to the storm, with one calling for a commission to examine the emergency response.
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HOUSTON, Oct. 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- United States Attorney Chuck Rosenberg today announced the unsealing of three (3) criminal complaints charging three (3) individuals with filing false claims to obtain Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) disaster relief assistance. LaToya Harris, 33, and Jimmie Williams, 27, both of Houston, Texas; and, Robert Foster, 39, of Galveston, Texas, have all been arrested by agents with the Department of Homeland Security, Office of Inspector General (DHS OIG) with the assistance of Federal Protection Service officers. All three are scheduled to appear before United States Magistrate Judge Frances Stacy this afternoon at 2 p.m. at the federal courthouse in Houston.
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HOUSTON Saying they were caught off guard by the number of people in need, FEMA officials closed a relief center early on Wednesday after some of the hundreds of hurricane victims in line began fainting in triple-digit heat. The midday closing of the Houston disaster relief center came as officials in areas hit hardest by Hurricane Rita criticized FEMA's response to the storm, with one calling for a commission to examine the emergency response.
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Beth Wardecke went to Houston to help with disaster relief from one hurricane and found herself fleeing from another. Wardecke flew home to Dayton on Thursday, a week ahead of schedule, to get out of the path of Hurricane Rita. The remaining evacuees in Houston's Astrodome are being forced to do the same. The Astrodome has a glass roof unlikely to withstand a powerful hurricane.
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HOUSTON (AP) - Saying they were caught off-guard by the number of people in need, FEMA officials closed a relief center early on Wednesday after some of the hundreds of hurricane victims in line began fainting in triple-digit heat. The midday closing of the Houston disaster relief center came as officials in areas hit hardest by Hurricane Rita criticized FEMA's response to the storm, with one calling for a commission to examine the emergency response.
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Most people go to the Bishops Storehouse for food. I went there to sleep. When our hotel lost power, and we were evicted during Hurricane Ike two years ago, heading to the storehouse seemed like the logical thing to do. After all, it had become the hurricane command center for the LDS Church in Houston, and I was there to document disaster relief. Its hurricane season again on the east coast of North America, and this year is forecast to be an active one. So I thought Id share two lessons learned from big winds in the gulf Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall on Aug. 25, 2005; and Hurricane Ike, which stormed ashore on Sept. 9, 2008.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Catholic Church disaster relief spans the gamut from doing laundry for people at Jackson, Miss., shelters to executing a Houston disaster plan created even before anyone ever heard of Hurricane Katrina. Reports from around the nation show creative, strategic, immediate and practical help.
