Secretariat
09-08-2005, 11:12 PM
There's so much just on FEMA, I figured I'd open a new thread with some its latest.
Feds so far failing to meet two emergency requests from Blanco
BATON ROUGE Essential emergency equipment Governor Kathleen Blanco requested from federal officials nearly a week ago still hasn't arrived.
Among the items were portable radios and generators that would enable emergency personnel to communicate with each other.
FEMA officials say they're checking on the status of the request.
Blanco asked for the equipment, along with crews to restore communications towers, in a letter to President Bush written on Friday. The letter also asked for 175 generators to help local parishes where police and other officials have been operating without power.
Three FEMA contractors arrested for looting in Plaquemines Parish
Three Texas truck drivers under contract with the federal government to bring in storm relief supplies for Plaquemines Parish have been arrested for allegedly looting toys, dolls, women’s lingerie and other merchandise from a Belle Chasse Family Dollar store, authorities said.
Booked late Wednesday night with one count each of looting were Gerald W. Thomas, 47, of Tyler, Texas; Thomas Sherman, 39, also of Tyler; and Lasharon Lemons, 36, of Dallas, said Major John Marie with the Plaquemines Parish Sheriff’s Office.
Marie said that since the relief effort began, drivers for the Federal Emergency Management Agency had been allowed to take drinks, personal grooming supplies and other small items from the Family Dollar store at 7902 Louisiana 23.
But he said the three suspects went much further, loading the cabs of their trucks with toys such as Barbie dolls, kitchen appliances, telephones, answering machines, waste paper baskets and other goods.
“When we arrested them, they had enough stolen stuff to fill five grocery carts full of property,” Marie said.
Feds so far failing to meet two emergency requests from Blanco
BATON ROUGE Essential emergency equipment Governor Kathleen Blanco requested from federal officials nearly a week ago still hasn't arrived.
Among the items were portable radios and generators that would enable emergency personnel to communicate with each other.
FEMA officials say they're checking on the status of the request.
Blanco asked for the equipment, along with crews to restore communications towers, in a letter to President Bush written on Friday. The letter also asked for 175 generators to help local parishes where police and other officials have been operating without power.
Three FEMA contractors arrested for looting in Plaquemines Parish
Three Texas truck drivers under contract with the federal government to bring in storm relief supplies for Plaquemines Parish have been arrested for allegedly looting toys, dolls, women’s lingerie and other merchandise from a Belle Chasse Family Dollar store, authorities said.
Booked late Wednesday night with one count each of looting were Gerald W. Thomas, 47, of Tyler, Texas; Thomas Sherman, 39, also of Tyler; and Lasharon Lemons, 36, of Dallas, said Major John Marie with the Plaquemines Parish Sheriff’s Office.
Marie said that since the relief effort began, drivers for the Federal Emergency Management Agency had been allowed to take drinks, personal grooming supplies and other small items from the Family Dollar store at 7902 Louisiana 23.
But he said the three suspects went much further, loading the cabs of their trucks with toys such as Barbie dolls, kitchen appliances, telephones, answering machines, waste paper baskets and other goods.
“When we arrested them, they had enough stolen stuff to fill five grocery carts full of property,” Marie said.