Craig Fugate
Craig Fugate
William Craig Fugate is the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Orphaned as a teenager, Fugate propelled himself into emergency services in Alachua County. As Florida Director for the Emergency Management Division, he oversaw the "Big 4 of '04" and as the Administrator for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, he organized recovery efforts for a record of eighty-seven disasters in 2011...
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The approaches to bridges are at the greatest risk of scouring from the storm surge. The National Guard is going to take a Hummer with satellite communications and drive all the way down to Mile Marker 0. They're just waiting for the winds to start dropping.
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I don't want a system so rigid that the actual victims who need the help are penalized. It's almost like a no-win situation.
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Many homes were impacted and shelters were opened, ... In some of these neighborhoods, till the water goes down, people are not going to be able to get back in their homes and start making repairs.
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Many of the field hands who manage, pick and process these crops will be impacted through the loss of their jobs,
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Max was very concerned that this hurricane was going to cross the state, that the winds were going to go far inland.
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Max understands that his mission is not to produce the perfect forecast, but to change the outcome of the event.
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The previous hurricanes had depleted the national supply.
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To a lot of people that would be an insult. They have been publicly out looking at how many different names and everyone turned it down and they come back and ask you?
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To a lot of people that would be an insult.
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We'd be looking at what differences there is in the population, building codes. Is it construction or people action? Why did people evacuate in one part and not another? . . ..
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It's important to recognize that we need to get our communities back on their feet quickly,
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I've heard comments made in other disasters that the first thing they did was throw the plan away because the plan was worthless. A plan should not be some requirement. It should truly reflect what your real needs are, and what your real resources are.
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It's easy to play the blame game, find a scapegoat, but no one person could be responsible for the challenges we face and the lives lost.
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It's right there along the coast. That's why it's extremely important that people heed and monitor the situation.