FEMA's Blocking Relief Efforts - An Amazing List

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FEMA's Blocking

Relief Efforts -

An Amazing

List

9-8-5

 

FEMA won't accept Amtrak's help in evacuations

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/84aa35cc-1da8-11da-b40b-00000e..

 

FEMA turns away experienced firefighters

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/9/5/105538/7048

 

FEMA turns back Wal-Mart supply trucks

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/national/nationalspec..

 

FEMA prevents Coast Guard from delivering diesel fuel

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/national/nationalspec..

 

FEMA won't let Red Cross deliver food

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05246/565143.stm

 

FEMA bars morticians from entering New Orleans

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15147862 & BRD=...

 

FEMA blocks 500-boat citizen flotilla from delivering aid

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/9/3/171718/0826

 

FEMA fails to utilize Navy ship with 600-bed hospital on board

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0509..

 

FEMA to Chicago: Send just one truck

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-050902dale..

 

FEMA turns away generators

http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWLBLOG.ac3fcea.html

 

FEMA: " First Responders Urged Not To Respond "

http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=18470

 

That last one is real -- not satire but straight from FEMA's

website.