No More Katrinas

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...]

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