Michael Brown
Michael Brown
Former administrator of FEMA who resigned from his position after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Many americans blamed him for the slow response to help those in New Orleans in the aftermath of the deadly hurricane.
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth8 November 1954
CityGuymon, OK
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Yes, I learned about that, the federal government learned about that (Thursday), ... And that shows how difficult communications are in the situation where there was virtually no communications, except for our teams on the ground.
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We're bringing in food, water, and the medical teams and urban search-and-rescue teams to have a massive response.
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FEMA has pre-positioned many assets including ice, water, food and rescue teams to move into the stricken areas as soon as it is safe to do so.
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The total lack of communication. The inability to hear and have good intelligence on the ground about what was occurring there, ... We had to actually take teams out yesterday because of the dangerous situation they were in. That's very frustrating not only to me but those teams. Those medical teams want to help save lives and the thugs and the others that are causing the problem are actually making it more difficult. So we had to pull them out for a while. They want to go back in. They're going back in.
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The worst impact was down in North Carolina along the Outer Banks, ... We've had 4,000 people or so who didn't evacuate; a lot of building collapses, urban search-and-rescue teams in there.
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was the tipping point for all the other things that either went wrong or were exacerbated.
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We've been able to put those things we've learned in the past in place and save many more structures,
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We're going to need everything that we can possibly muster, not only in this state and in the region, but the nation, to respond to this event.
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We're going to move an army of people down there to help Mississippi and Louisiana however we can.
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We're doing everything we can to make sure it's safe to live and work in Lower Manhattan.
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We're finding more and more people coming out of the woodwork, ... They're appearing in places we didn't know they existed.
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We're not a first responder agency. We're there to coordinate and help people prepare and coordinate in times of disaster. And so if the country wants us to be more, then we should have a great public policy debate whether that's true or not,
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We've already started calling in additional troops that we have available to us like the Coast Guard Auxiliary, ... We have plenty of resources, plenty of people.
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There is no question in my mind, that at the highest levels of the White House they understood how grave the situation was.