FEMA's Response to the September 11th Attacks: Hearing Before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, First Session, on Effectiveness of the Response by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to the Terrorist Attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon, October 16, 2001, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 2003 - 57 páginas |
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Página 50 - By choice of the president, who felt he could justify it as a response to the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001...
Página 6 - More recently, the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, renewed calls for greater security at the expense of certain civil liberties.
Página 13 - Government must be cognizant of issues regarding interoperability between our borders as well as frequency allocations. As Mr. Joe Allbaugh, Director of FEMA, testified on October 16, 2001 to the United States Senate, "if there is a single item that we could do, (it) is to make sure that police, fire, emergency responders can communicate with one another. Oftentimes, I go into a community and there are all types of bands and frequencies used and folks, literally, who are responding to an incident...
Página 9 - ... is too late, or save an older person from the horror of that fate. Enable me to be alert and hear the weakest shout, and efficiently to put the fire out.
Página 23 - Chairman, thank you very much. It is, indeed, a pleasure to be here...
Página 47 - ... coordinate all Federal programs dealing with weapons of mass destruction consequence management within the Departments of Defense, Health and Human Services, Justice, and Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, and other federal agencies.
Página 5 - It seems to me that one of the most important things that the Congress can do is to...
Página 48 - ... served us so well over the last few months. Thank you. STATEMENT BY CHIEF EDWARD P. PLAUGHER Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee. I am Edward Plaugher, Chief of the Arlington County Fire Department. I also appear today on behalf of the International Association of Fire Chiefs. I would like to begin by thanking the Committee for having me today. Issues related to terrorism and related preparedness efforts have taken on new meaning in our nation. Our fire chiefs...
Página 47 - FEMA is responsible for ensuring that the national emergency management system is adequate to respond to the consequences of disasters of all types, including acts of terrorism. The Federal family has focused its efforts on providing assistance to those affected by these terrible events and has done so swiftly and successfully, in part, because of the strong partnerships fostered through years of preparedness planning, and responding to other types of disasters.
Página 2 - I look forward to the hearing and the testimony of the witnesses here this morning.