FEMA: Trying to make it real, compared to what?
As the mayor of New Orleans pleaded for firefighters, a highly trained bunch of firefighters sat in a hotel conference room in Atlanta:
Many of the firefighters, assembled from Utah and throughout the United States by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, thought they were going to be deployed as emergency workers.
Instead, they have learned they are going to be community-relations officers for FEMA, shuffled throughout the Gulf Coast region to disseminate fliers and a phone number: 1-800-621-FEMA.
On Monday, some firefighters stuck in the staging area at the Sheraton peeled off their FEMA-issued shirts and stuffed them in backpacks, saying they refuse to represent the federal agency.
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you should see people here in the Astrodome. When you say the words "ask at the fema desk" or "ask that police officer over there", they smile with one side of their mouth and look like they're going to throw up, cry, laugh, all at once.
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