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During a visit to FEMA’s National Response Coordination Center on Friday, President Obama said that preparing for hurricanes and other disasters was a “personal responsibility” and a responsibility of citizenship. According to the President:
“True preparedness means having federal and state and local governments all coordinating effectively, and as you just heard, one of the most important [...]

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The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing yesterday on the nomination of Craig Fugate for Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Administration. Fugate received enthusiastic backing from committee members and his confirmation seems assured. 
From a citizen preparedness perspective, I think it was terrific that very early in his opening statement Fugate made [...]

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As described in the previous post, FEMA Administrator-Designate Craig Fugate’s trip from Tallahassee to Washington, D.C. to begin preparations for his Senate confirmation hearings has not gone exactly as planned. ‘Followers’ of his Twitter feed, disasterrus, have not only read that Fugate was delayed in Atlanta and missed a connecting flight, but they also got to [...]

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I wrote recently that I thought the Twitter feed, Disasterus, of Florida’s Division of Emergency Management Director Craig Fugate provided some interesting and even fun insight into the activities of the future FEMA Administrator. In a tweet earlier today, Fugate wrote:
Tallahassee this morning, flying out to DC to begin briefings to prepare for Senate Confirmation 
In the era of [...]

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One of the interesting and fun things about Twitter is that you can sometimes get to know about someone pretty quickly — their daily activities, hobbies, personality, etc. — from their feed. For example, I have been ‘following’ FEMA Administrator-Designate Craig Fugate on Twitter, and I have enjoyed learning about him.
On Sunday, Fugate, currently Director of [...]

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I was reading FEMA nominee Craig Fugate’s Twitter feed yesterday and found an interesting Government Technology article he tweeted about in January that I had missed when it initially came out. According to the piece, “Governments Use Twitter For Emergency Alerts, Traffic Notices And More”:
When Twitter’s founders launched the service in 2006, they advertised it as a way to [...]

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President Obama has announced his intention to nominate Craig Fugate as the next Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA). It is excellent pick. Fugate has distinguished himself as Director of Florida’s Division of Emergency Management.
Fugate understands the importance of the public in disaster preparedness and response and has made citizen outreach a focus [...]

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With hurricane season starting today, Craig Fugate, the Director of Florida’s Division of Emergency Management, is the subject of an interesting profile in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.
According to the article, Fugate wants to instill a new sense of public personal responsibility among the public when it comes to preparing and responding to disasters. Fugate is taking aim at what he has dubbed ”the [...]

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