FEMA Isn’t Ready for Disaster Season, Workers Say

But countries are now fighting by financing their basic emergency management needs, which, in a season outside the season, includes planning and preparing for future events, as well as recovery from previous disasters. This is thanks to a large part of the frozen Fema financing, which was Caught In a broader office for management and budget guidance in late January, agencies teach agencies to temporarily stop the disbursement of federal assistance to the states, and to review this financing to ensure “consistent with the President’s policies and requirements.” Twenty -two democratic countries submitted a request to implement against the federal government in February, claiming that the administration Funding review Fema has borne decisive money for both disasters and emergency management staff at the state level.
A representative of the emergency management program in Oregon said that WIRED is that FEMA still blocks millions of dollars from money, including the state’s emergency management grant, which the state uses to pay local emergency managers. Oregon usually pay offices to obtain employee salaries at the end of each quarter, but if funding continues, the actor said, “We will not be able to compensate for the local judicial authorities.”
Local partnerships also collapse after the new agency’s policies. Last summer, Middlettown, New York, a rural city exposed to floods in Wadi Hudson, was chosen to participate in a program as part of the infrastructure program and flexible societies to build Fema. FEMA representatives went out to Middletown to take a tour of the floods, weak water wells, and bridges affected by the floods. City representatives began regularly with Fema to talk about grants and exchange of experience.
In the middle of February, minutes before the date of the date of the city’s representatives, the FEMA contacts from MiddleTown sent an email eliminating the call and sharing the BRIC program was turned off. When Robin Williams, a city council member, began to search for another grant to replace federal funds, she says she realized information from Fema that MiddleTown is specified as specific Disaster area at risk It was deleted from the agency’s website, a few days after the canceled call. Fema has never reached the Middletown group; Williams learned that the BRIC program had ended earlier this month from an article on the Environmental News website Barrier.
“They haven’t said,” hey, sorry, the program has already ended, “says Williams.
The internal Impa Communications memorandum that WIRED at early March is directed to employees that activities – which require web seminars to conferences to external meetings – are not related to current disasters now require submitting an authorization form to obtain approval before employees can attend or participate.
“I have made a lot of things and was dropped every time,” says one of the employees. “The thing is that Flood and Tornado and Fire Season is practically here. Now we are expected to sit just and we are waiting for these terrible things to happen before we can pick up the phone and speak to our partners.”
In her press statement, who announced the cancellation of BRIC, a FEMA spokesman described the program – to help weak societies prepare for future storms, floods and hurricanes – “another example of the inferior and ineffective program.”