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  • As Major Hurricane Approaches Florida, FEMA Faces Severe Staffing Shortage

    10/07/2024 6:03:29 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 32 replies
    The New York Times ^ | Oct. 7, 2024, 2:39 p.m. ET | Christopher Flavelle
    As Hurricane Milton pushes toward Florida, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is running out of staff members to deploy. As of Monday morning, just 9 percent of FEMA’s personnel, or 1,217 people, were available to respond to the hurricane or other disasters, according to the agency’s daily operations briefing. To put that into context: Over the previous five years, one-quarter of the agency’s staff was available for deployment at this point in the hurricane season. Even in 2017 — arguably FEMA’s busiest year in the past decade, after Hurricane Harvey flooded Houston, Hurricane Irma plowed through Florida, and Hurricane Maria...