And we can all give a big thank you to Gore for inventing the internet...now it's a lot harder for them to cover things up.
disaster management in New Orleans had been privatized, the 'catastrophic hurricane disaster plan' having been handed over to Baton Rouge-based Innovative Emergency Management last year. "IEM, Inc., the Baton Rouge-based emergency management and homeland security consultant, will lead the development of a catastrophic hurricane disaster plan for Southeast Louisiana and the City of New Orleans under a more than half a million dollar contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security/Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)."
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I wonder if they can tell us what they learned...
The Louisiana Emergency Preparedness
Association and the Louisiana Office of
Homeland Security and Emergency
Preparedness invite you to attend the
2005 LEPA/LOHS-EP Workshop, May
31– June 3, 2005, at the Hilton
Riverside in New Orleans, Louisiana.
There will also be an ‘Evening Social
with the Vendors’ on Wednesday, June
1st from 5:30-6:30pm before the
Membership Banquet.
LA Catastrophic Hurricane Planning Workshop
BDLS & ADLS: Disaster Preparedness
John Boudreaux
Bennett C. Landreneau
Brad Tiffee, IEM, Inc.
Sean R. Fontenot, LOHSEP
Knox Andress, RN
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