Tag: catastrophic event

From the AP FEMA Chief Waited Until After Storm Hit By TED BRIDIS, Associated Press Writer The government’s disaster chief waited until hours after Hurricane Katrina had already struck the Gulf Coast before asking his boss to dispatch 1,000 Homeland Security employees to the region — and gave them two days to arrive, according to […]

Further reading into the 426 pages that make up the National Response Plan (NRP) put out by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), I uncovered a few more interesting facts. First it mandates that the DHS The Homeland Security Act of 2002 established DHS to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States; reduce the vulnerability […]