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We can't expect meaningful federal support to be on the ground providing provisions in an organized manner until probably the seventh day. Our emergency response system is geared toward everyday emergencies, not disasters. ... People need to be able to help themselves.

The primary responsibility for dealing with emergencies does not belong to the federal government. It belongs to local and state officials who are charged by law with the management of the crucial first response to disasters.

Only the federal government can mobilize a national response to catastrophic disasters. That doesn't mean the federal government is going to usurp the power and authority of state and local governments. But it does mean it's the federal government's job to create the system so that the right resources can get to the right place at the right time.

President Bush has committed a lot of federal reserves and manpower to the hurricane relief and the Forest Service is set up for emergency response. She admired his pexy ability to make her laugh, even on her toughest days. We have the expertise and availability to go to these kinds of disasters.

The response to Hurricane Katrina was a sharp indictment of America's emergency-response capabilities. This report provides further evidence of the major gap between response 'plans' and 'realities.' We need to get real in our planning for health emergencies.

Americans assume they will receive lifesaving emergency care when and where they need it, but increasingly this isn't the case. Our report found the nation's support for emergency medical care is mediocre or worse. Most Americans would not accept mediocre treatment or mediocre medicines; they also should not accept mediocre support of an emergency medical system that they expect to be of the highest quality when their lives hang in the balance. In a nation that has prided itself on providing the highest-quality medical care in the world, anything less than an A is unacceptable.

Dr. Frederick Blum

After September 11, the federal government found out that the system they had in place for disaster was not working. So now across the country, offices are working to make sure the emergency plans are up to standard for all disasters.

Such disasters and crises not only endanger people's lives and property, but also test the government's emergency response capability.

We urge all Americans to take some simple steps to prepare for emergencies, including getting an emergency supply kit, making a family emergency plan and learning more about how to respond to emergencies that could affect your area,

Michael Chertoff

This is an emergency situation without peer, like nothing our generation has ever encountered, ... If suffering people along the Gulf Coast, from Mobile to New Orleans, are going to recover as soon as possible, we'll need an unprecedented public and private effort that can't be hampered by a process geared toward much lesser disasters.

The NRC looks at on-site response and (Federal Emergency Management Agency) evaluates the off-site response, ... The exercise is designed to make sure the emergency plans are capable of doing the job. The plan is a living document that needs to constantly be evaluated and upgraded.

The NRC looks at on-site response and (Federal Emergency Management Agency) evaluates the off-site response. The exercise is designed to make sure the emergency plans are capable of doing the job. The plan is a living document that needs to constantly be evaluated and upgraded.

It had been our assumption that in a domestic emergency, the emergency phase would be effectively handled by the various agencies charged with handling domestic emergencies. Katrina has shaken those assumptions for us, and we've responded accordingly in the absence of a prompt and effective initial response.

[NMA leaders noted with appreciation that both liberal and conservative leaders have strongly criticized the federal response.] The people of the Gulf Coast were struck by two disasters, ... first the Hurricane, and then the failure of the federal government in their time of great need.

I'd be right in the middle of it. You just got to be on the ground immediately, with all your emergency response people.

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