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By Robert Longley, About.com Guide to US Government Info

No More Katrinas

Sunday August 31, 2008
From the 1991 Oakland Hills firestorm, the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks and Hurricane Katrina in 2005, our nation's emergency responders learned hard lessons, many of them taught by failure. Foremost among those lessons is the undeniable fact that whenever emergency responders from many local, state and federal jurisdictions show up to help, as they are now for Hurricane Gustav, everybody absolutely must be working from the same game plan. That game plan is called the National Incident Management System, or NIMS and, unlike many things in government, it's comprehensive, it's logical and it really works. [Learn more...]

Also See:
FEMA Prepares as Gustav Aims at New Orleans
Bush Okays Hurricane Gustav Emergency Aid
New Orleans Looks to Levees as Gustav Approaches

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