(Bloomberg) -- The recent spate of natural disasters hitting the U.S. has left staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency “tapped out” and the agency in an existential reckoning, FEMA’s chief told a congressional panel.
FEMA's future role
“It is time to question what is FEMA’s role in disaster management
and emergency recovery,” FEMA
Administrator Brock Long told a subcommittee of the House
Appropriations Committee on Thursday. “Let’s hit the reset button.
FEMA was never designed to be first or only respondent in a
disaster, but we often find ourselves in that situation.”
Following four major natural disasters, including Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria and deadly wildfires in California, Long said his staff was in the midst of the longest activation in the agency’s history and is now “tapped out.”
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