Multiple hurricanes strain volunteer pool

[DogPoundPup]

Source: UPI

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. relief workers say they're worried about being able to line up enough medical and construction volunteers to cope with multiple hurricanes.

With two storms, Hurricane Gustav and Tropical Storm Hanna, already ashore and another -- Hurricane Ike -- bearing down on the U.S. Gulf Coast, the Federal Emergency Management Agency's new response philosophy is being tested under fire, the Christian Science Monitor reported Monday.

It seems to be functioning well so far in implementing its new management oversight lines of communication and authority, observers told the newspaper. But the real question now is not so much how volunteers will be managed, but where they will come from, observers said.

"If hurricanes keep slamming in, FEMA's ability to deploy volunteer agencies is greatly hampered," Tom Kirsch, a medical response adviser to the Red Cross in Baltimore, told the newspaper.

"Volunteer fatigue" is setting in for those dispatched to more than one disaster, another official said.

Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/09/08/Multiple_hurricanes_strain_volunteer_pool/UPI-49001220900483/

[LiberalFighter]

1. Hmmmm... National Guards? I bet they would be a great help if we had them.

[phantom power]

2. yeah, and all that money we spent in Afghanistan and Iraq.

[Tansy_Gold]

3. Uh, they wouldn't be counting on any of those worthless and

inexperienced "community organizers" would they?

:sarcasm:


Tansy Gold, who just gets sicker and sicker and sicker of this CRAP every moment.

[Retrograde]

4. those darn community organizers

don't they know we depend on them for situations like this, since the current administration screwed up FEMA and send the National Guard overseas?

Funny how volunteer organizations are good when they pick up after Republicans, but not when they help the disadvantaged.