With Katrina in mind, Bush views Calif. fire damage
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Determined to avoid the mistakes made with Hurricane Katrina, U.S. President George W. Bush toured fire-ravaged Southern California on Thursday and promised to do everything possible to help the region recover.
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President Bush, ahead of next week's anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, says the government is making changes to improve response to national disasters and address the deep-seated poverty the floodwaters exposed.
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If Hurricane Charley had struck three years ago, President Bush's tour through the wreckage of this coastal city would have been just the sort of post-disaster visit that other presidents have made to the scenes of storms, earthquakes, floods and fires.
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On the eve of the 5th anniversary of the attacks, President Bush paid tribute to victims and made a surprise visit to firefighters.
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President Bush was set on Sunday to  tour the wreckage from the hurricane that killed at least 13  people and sent thousands fleeing to shelters in Florida, a  state critical to his reelection.
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President Bush asked his supporters Saturday to pray for Hurricane Charley victims and announced that he will visit Florida to survey the damage.
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US President George W. Bush on Tuesday visited the Camp Pendleton Marines base in southern California on the 63rd anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, vowing
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President Bush is to visit Florida where a hurricane has killed 13 and destroyed thousands of homes.
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PENSACOLA, Fla. - President Bush got a firsthand look Sunday at homes shattered and residents left shell-shocked by Hurricane Ivan as he made his third campaign-season trip to Florida to assess storm damage...
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LAKE WALES, Fla.  - President Bush got his fourth  first-hand look at the latest hurricane damage in Florida on  Wednesday and, after a weekend of preparations, was declared  ready for his first debate with Democrat John Kerry in Miami on  Thursday night.
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President Bush on Sunday got a firsthand look at Hurricane Ivan's devastation during his third trip to Florida to assess the damage from this summer's fierce storms in the South.
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The White House worked Tuesday to assure the US public that it had learned its lesson from the botched response to Hurricane Katrina, as it now grappled with devastating fires in California.
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US President George W. Bush declared an emergency in southern California due to out-of-control wildfires and ordered federal aid to be directed to the area, the White House announced Tuesday.
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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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HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. -- James Campbell seemed to relish being a firefighter, showing up in uniform at the World Trade Center, train wrecks, wildfires and the aftermaths of hurricanes including Katrina.
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President Bush is making his fourth trip to vote-rich Florida to see damage from the latest of four hurricanes to strike the state in six weeks.
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US President George W. Bush next week will visit New Orleans and parts of the Mississippi coast ravaged two years ago by Hurricane Katrina, the White House said Friday.