Michael Brown is Deputy Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. According to whitehouse.gov: Prior to his current appointment, Michael Brown served as FEMA General Counsel and Acting Deputy Director. From 1991 to 2001, he...
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Michael Brown is Deputy Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. According to whitehouse.gov: Prior to his current appointment, Michael Brown served as FEMA General Counsel and Acting Deputy Director. From 1991 to 2001, he was the Commissioner of the International Arabian Horse Association, an international subsidiary of the national governing organization of the U.S. Olympic Committee. From 1988 to 1991, Michael was General Counsel to Dillingham Insurance, Suits Drilling, Suits Rig, Latigo Energy, Dillingham Ranch and Dillingham Enterprises, and from 1980 to 1988 he was an attorney in private practice. In 1978 to 1980, he worked for the Oklahoma State Senate Finance Committee, and from 1975 to 1978 he worked for the City of Edmond, Oklahoma, overseeing the emergency services divisions. Michael is a graduate of Central State University and Oklahoma City University Law School.
This one has to be filed in the “is he f*%#@n’ kidding” folder! Michael ‘Brownie’ Brown (aka the most incompetent idiot to ever hold a disaster relief position), former director of FEMA has sent out a press release stating “he is available for interviews” regarding the wildfires in Southern California. We all remember the incompetent, piss-poor, disgraceful job he did during the Katrina fiasco as head of FEMA, so what makes him think he can crawl out from under the rock of obscurity and...
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Meet Pamela L. Lewis, a homeless 4.0 GPA graduate student of Griffin Technical College that was displaced by Hurricane Katrina and is presently sleeping in a '95 Ford Explorer as a resident of Riverdale, Ga. without a source of income. The Katrina survivor is still being denied food-stamps by Clayton County-DFAS in Jonesboro, Ga. She has not received assistance from FEMA since March of 2006. A FEMA representative informed the survivor that her case was closed because THEY did not meet their...
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Legislation introduced Tuesday by a Louisiana Democrat that would enable the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help fund the rebuilding of public housing following disasters is expected on the House floor Wednesday.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending that the Federal Emergency Management Agency relocate people from travel trailers and mobile homes in the Gulf Coast as quickly as possible based on formaldehyde testing in more than 500 of the temporary housing units.
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SINCE ITS disgraceful performance during Hurricane Katrina and the shake-up that followed, the folks at the Federal Emergency Management Agency have adopted a mantra: We are a new FEMA, they boasted according to the Op/Ed pages of the WaPo yesterday.
But the old, bumbling agency capable of breathtaking lapses in judgment reemerged last week during a “press conference” to update the “media” on FEMA’s response to the wildfires in Southern California.
Turns out the people whom FEMA deputy...
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Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (GOHSEP) urge all ...
Public meetings with officials from the city of Slidell and the Federal Emergency Management Agency are slated this week so city and parish residents can look at new flood zone data that may change their flood insurance rates.
Tuesday, Sanchez waited in line at an office where the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Texas Department of Insurance, the American Red Cross and ...
Wabash Valley residents affected by storms and flooding in June have just a few more days to register for assistance with the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Previously, Federal Emergency Management Agency funds were not used to repair property for temporary residences. Culver calls the change "really good news" ...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency says that local governments, schools and hospitals in Louisiana won't get as much help from the government in paying for pricey deductibles on insurance policies in future storms as they did during Hurricane Katrina....
This marks the last day that individuals can apply for grant assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and loan assistance from the ...