Urban Search and Rescue, FEMA and Texas
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Ken Pagurek, a longtime Philadelphia firefighter who served as chief of FEMA’s search and rescue branch for the past year, was well-versed in major disaster response.
Congress should be demanding accountability from FEMA. Instead they're going on vacation. A short hearing by the House Transportation Committee offered little insight into what went wrong in Texas.
The Trump administration’s new rules slowed FEMA’s response to the deadly flooding in Central Texas earlier this month.
Ken Pagurek told colleagues the delay was the tipping point after months of frustration with the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the agency.
Kristi Noem suggested FEMA's response to deadly Texas flooding was a model for the future. A resigning FEMA official apparently doesn't see it that way.
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