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Tuesday, April 11, 2006
In Attics and Rubble, More Bodies and Questions
The tragedy isn't over. And neither is the complete uselessness and mismanagement of FEMA.
In October and November, the special operations team of the New Orleans Fire Department searched the Lower Ninth Ward for remains until they ran out of overtime money. Half a dozen officials of the Federal Emergency Management Agency rebuffed requests to pay the bill, said Chief Steve Glynn, the team commander. When reporters inquired, FEMA officials said the required paperwork had not been filed.....

...Of the 14 bodies found since mid-February, none have been definitively identified and released for burial, partly because FEMA closed a $17 million morgue built to handle the dead from Hurricane Katrina. The morgue was used for eight weeks, and agency officials said there was no longer enough volume to justify keeping it open.

FEMA declined to allow the New Orleans coroner, whose own office and morgue were ruined in the storm, to continue to use the autopsy site.
No comment.
posted by Broadsheet @ 9:09 AM  
2 Editorial Opinions:
  • At April 11, 2006, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    unless you write for salon, why did you steal their blog name AND their image logo?

     
  • At April 11, 2006, Blogger Broadsheet said…

    I've had this blog name and blog a lot longer than theirs. If anything - they owe me. I only borrowed the image because it fits.

     
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