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Table converts to shelter and stretcher
This table - in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, design by Thom Faulders of BeigeDesign and Anna Rainer, has, as far as well can tell, never been put into production. This one seems like it should have had at least a couple of production runs large enough to see how they work out and hold up:
“Their house is burning and they’re spending their time picking out window curtains”
That’s Craig Fugate, then and now the director of emergency preparedness for the state of Florida. What’s he talking about? The post-Katrina reorganization of FEMA, DHS and the National Response Plan.
I found this line in Christopher Cooper and Robert Block’s book Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of Homeland Security, an excellent account of the top-level decision-making in Katrina. About which more shortly. Fugate is clearly first-rate.
The Rules, according to Fugate:
- Meet the needs of the disaster victim
- Take care of the responders
- See rule 1.
And he has a website - “DisastersRUs” - check out his Emergency Management 101.
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