. The Federal Crisis Management Agency introduces significant changes in how it will react to the disaster in the field this season, including the end of the federal acquisition from door to the door of the survivors in the areas of disasters, Wired found out.
The note reviewed by Wired, of May 2 and addressed to the regional leaders of FEMA from Cameron Hamilton, a senior official performing the administrator’s duties, instructs program offices to “take steps to implement” five “key reforms” in the coming season of hurricane and fire.
According to the first reform, entitled “Prioritizing help in survival in established objects”, the note states that “FEMA will stop without care for door to door to focus on survival and registration in the scope of registration in more directed places, improving access to people in need, and increasing collaboration with collaboration [state, local, tribal, and territorial] Partners and non -profit service providers. “
FEMA has for years deployed staff for door to door in the areas of disasters, Interaction directly With survivors in their homes to present a review of FEMA application processes and lend a hand them register federal lend a hand. This group of employees is often part of a larger staff called “Shoes on Earth” FEMA in the areas of disasters.
The end of door -to -door acquisition, says one FEMA employee, “will seriously make our ability to reach sensitive people.” They say that the lend a hand provided by employees going to door “usually focused on the most affected and most sensitive communities in which older or disabled people or lack of transport may be and are not able to reach recovery centers after failure.” This person talked to Wired provided anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the press.
“Door to door to door is another example of the prodigal and ineffective FEMA program,” says Geoff Harbaugh, deputy FEMA administrator at the external affairs office in the e-mail. “Under the leadership of President Trump and secretary Noem Fema, it changes the way in which it works and reforms his policy to better support people who survived the catastrophes and the American people. The last executive orders of President Trump enable the countries to effectively respond to natural disasters and providing resources at community level.”
Todd Devoe, Coordinator of the crisis management of the City of Inglewood in California and the second vice president of the International Association of Rescue Managers, says that while working in disaster management, he saw how many survivors do not receive information about recovery or resources without a range radio ads and newspapers.
“It is very important to go to door to door, especially in critically hit areas,” he says. “You need it.
Door to door -to -door fema informed The Daily Wire conservative information site, which one official told employees in Florida to avoid approaching houses with Trump Yard signs. Former administrator FEMA Deanne Criswell he said Home Committee for Supervision and Responsibility during the interrogation last year that the incident was isolated one employee who was dismissed. The employee, in turn, claimed that she He worked on orders From the supervisor, and this problem was the pattern of “enemy meetings” with survivors who had the signs of Trump Yard.