Emergency Response in Bushworld

The Salt Lake Tribune has a story on 1400 firefighters, recruited to aid in disaster relief, sent to Atlanta:
As New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin pleaded on national television for firefighters - his own are exhausted after working around the clock for a week - a battalion of highly trained men and women sat idle Sunday in a muggy Sheraton Hotel conference room in Atlanta.
FEMA was training them to do public relations - handing out FEMA flyers. Finally though, some got their first real assignment:
But as specific orders began arriving to the firefighters in Atlanta, a team of 50 Monday morning quickly was ushered onto a flight headed for Louisiana. The crew's first assignment: to stand beside President Bush as he tours devastated areas.
(via Josh Marshall)

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