Brookhaven ambulance company defies FEMA orders and heads to Gulf Coast

[lindisfarne]

We need more of this ....

(09/08/05) BROOKHAVEN - A Brookhaven ambulance company is
defying the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and
heading down to the Gulf Coast Thursday to help victims of
Katrina.

FEMA officials told the company that no volunteers were needed
right now and they should wait to be deployed. Members of the
South Country Ambulance Company were tired of waiting for
approval from FEMA to go help survivors of the hurricane. The
chief of the company says FEMA should have tapped into the
vast resources Suffolk County can provide. 

The six volunteers will meet with an EMT unit in Mississippi
and stay to help for a few weeks.

Video at:
http://ondemand1.cv.net/news12/ELIACFET.asx

[lebkuchen]

1. Does FEMA even exist anymore?

Defying FEMA orders is like defying a ghost.

Do the right thing, folks!

[ToolTex]

2. Sure FEMA exists. Takes a lot of people to spend $62.5 billion.

n/t

[lebkuchen]

3. It exists in "name only" then -- a carpetbagger organization

The south knows that drill all too well.