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.