DAILY MAIL BUSINESS EDITOR There have been seven declared disasters in West Virginia in the last five years, including five in Kanawha County. As sure as it will rain there will be more.
BEAVER - Recent disasters have revealed shortcomings with the mining industry's ability to respond to disasters, the head of the nation's top mining regulator said Tuesday. Mine operators and regulators must improve, U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration Director Joe Main said during a daylong conference with industry officials. For instance, just 32 of 418 U.S. coal mines have complied with the agency's advice for preparing for disasters.
It appears that the money has been moved in the president's budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq. I suppose that's the price we pay. Adding fuel to this corrosive mix is FEMA's role in the unfolding drama following Hurricane Katrina. Given FEMA's late arrival on the scene, many are asking if the disaster response agency's ineptness stems from the fact it was wrongly incorporated into the Department of Homeland Security. In that capacity it was stripped of much of its funding and autonomy, relegated to a subservient role as the emphasis of the Department was increasingly directed at preventing terrorism from abroad rather than catastrophes at home. Equally telling, a mock theoretical drill, dubbed "Hurricane Pam" conducted last year by FEMA which foretold, almost to...
Japan's northeastern coast was a swampy wasteland of damaged houses, overturned cars, sludge and dirty water today as the nation awoke to the devastating aftermath of one of its greatest disasters, a powerful tsunami created by one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded. The death toll from Friday's massive magnitude 8.9 quake stood at more than 400 but was expected to exceed 1,000 once disaster response teams could reach the hardest-hit areas and assess casualties, the National Police Agency and Defense Ministry said.
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WASHINGTON - A Senate inquiry into the government's Hurricane Katrina failures ripped the Bush administration anew Thursday and urged the scrapping of the nation's disaster response agency. But with a new hurricane season just weeks away, senators conceded that few if any of their proposals could become reality in time. The bipartisan investigation into one of the worst natural disasters in the nation's history singled out President Bush and the White House as appearing indifferent to the devastation until two days after the storm hit.
WASHINGTON -- A Senate inquiry into the government's Hurricane Katrina failures ripped the Bush administration anew Thursday and urged the scrapping of the nation's disaster response agency. But with a new hurricane season just weeks away, senators conceded that few if any of their proposals could become reality in time. The bipartisan investigation into one of the worst natural disasters in the nation's history singled out President Bush and the White House as appearing indifferent to the devastation until two days after the storm hit.
DAYTON -- Fire departments around the Dayton area are engaged in a friendly competition to fund the purchase of a new disaster response vehicle for the Dayton Area Chapter of the American Red Cross. Julie Benedetto, an emergency services specialist for the local Red Cross chapter, said the agency's two response vehicles -- one for fires, the other for food services -- are old and need extensive repairs.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation's beleaguered disaster response agency should be abolished and rebuilt from scratch to avoid a repeat of multiple government failures exposed by Hurricane Katrina, a Senate inquiry has concluded. Crippled by years of poor leadership and inadequate funding, the Federal Emergency Management Agency cannot be fixed, a bipartisan investigation says in recommendations to be released today.
- Agency has stocked disaster response items at 10 sites across U.S.; Dallas warehouse on alert for any Gulf Coast response - World Vision calling for corporate donations of quality, new products in advance of first storms
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