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Federal Government’s Keys To Responding to Disasters

Headlines about tsunamis caused by earthquakes have been all over the radio, TV, internet, and newspapers over the last several weeks. There are a number of iss...

Federal News Network Staff

October 5, 2009 5:18 pm

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Headlines about tsunamis caused by earthquakes have been all over the radio, TV, internet, and newspapers over the last several weeks. There are a number of issues at play that affect how the government responds and what they do. Mark Merritt is President of James Lee Witt Associates, and a former FEMA official, and he’s been intimately involved in responding to disasters both foreign and domestic. He joined me to sort out who responds to what – and how.