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Mama HillyBeans WebCast 8.14.08 Why the Road? Thanks to Autoextremist.com 7.21.08 Lightning Book - A book about lightning is the scariest read of the year! Not the kind of out of the body experience I want to have! 7.11.08 ALMS and Formula BMW at Lime Rock Park's New Uphill and West Bend 4.30.08 Albert Hofmann Remember April 19 - Bicycle Day 04.47.08 DLMWeb live cam A test of the Ustream.tv More.. |
9.7.05 Frustrated: Fire crews to hand out fliers for FEMA By Lisa Rosetta http://sltrib.com/utah/ci_3004197 The Salt Lake Tribune Firefighters endure a day of FEMA training, which included a course on sexual harassment. Some firefighters say their skills are being wasted. (Leah Hogsten/The Salt Lake Tribune) ATLANTA - Not long after some 1,000 firefighters sat down for eight hours of training, the whispering began: "What are we doing here?" 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. Many of the firefighters, assembled from Utah and throughout the United States by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, thought they were going to be deployed as emergency workers. Instead, they have learned they are going to be community-relations officers for FEMA, shuffled throughout the Gulf Coast region to disseminate fliers and a phone number: 1-800-621-FEMA. On Monday, some firefighters stuck in the staging area at the Sheraton peeled off their FEMA-issued shirts and stuffed them in backpacks, saying they refuse to represent the federal agency. Federal officials are unapologetic. "I would go back and ask the firefighter to revisit his commitment to FEMA, to firefighting and to the citizens of this country," said FEMA spokeswoman Mary Hudak. 10/19/2007 wow this is cool 76.205.176.15 | ||