FEMA challenges far different to Katrina
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Federal Emergency Management Agency officials know the agency's performance in the California wildfires will be watched closely for comparisons to its failures in Hurricane Katrina.
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Hundreds of pages of e-mails released as Congress investigated FEMA's response to Katrina earned scorn for Michael D. Brown and some aides. The e-mails showed them apparently unaware of the magnitude of the disaster and focused instead on their image in the media.
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Many coastal scientists say the ambitious federal plans to repair the Gulf Coast would only perpetuate a costly and wrongheaded approach to storm management.
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For the next two days, the city will test new evacuation plans and emergency response strategies meant to prevent the widespread confusion, especially among the poor, that accompanied the approach of Hurricane Katrina last year.
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Now that the hurricane season has ended, New Orleans residents notice a lag in work to rebuild the cityÂs flood protection infrastructure.
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The Bush administration's disaster assistance chief promised no repeat of the Hurricane Katrina experience Wednesday, saying "this is a new FEMA" as Washington weighed options to help California wildfire victims.
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Major challenges confront the new head of the American Red Cross, ranging from blood-safety violations and a budget deficit to disaster-response flaws exposed by Hurricane Katrina.
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The United States is better prepared  to deal with a major disaster like Hurricane Katrina, which  devastated the Gulf region in 2005, but still lacks a formal  structure for coordinating a national response, the head of the  U.S. Coast Guard said on Tuesday.
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Bad weather, smashed infrastructure and logistical snarls have made it difficult to get food and medical supplies to survivors.
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FEMA hasn't been cleaning up the hazardous materials on federal land, putting Louisiana's important wetlands at risk
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Overwhelmed volunteers, inflexible attitudes and inadequate anti-fraud measures are among the many shortcomings acknowledged by the American Red Cross in a candid and comprehensive new report assessing its response to Hurricane Katrina.
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Plans created at the state and U.S. level to protect Louisiana from Katrina-sized hurricanes would fail to guard dozens of communities.
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NEW ORLEANS, June 20 -- In this city still half-emptied from one of the worst floods in American history, one question provokes the ever present doubt.
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Hurricane Charley's sudden increase in intensity and unexpected path show how difficult it remains for scientists to predict massive storms.
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With solid concrete walls and roofs and  laminated glass windows protected by storm shutters, a house  can be built to withstand nearly any hurricane. But very few  are.
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One year after Hurricane Katrina, many IT managers in New Orleans have shored up their systems. But they still face a shortage of available workers and an overload of fatigue and stress.
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Even before the federal reinforcements arrived, a Democratic senator was warning FEMA to do better than past disasters.