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Friday, November 20, 2009

Call to Arms

A tornado blows through a community of only a few thousand in Southern Illinois. It destroys houses and other buildings, injuring and trapping residents, and causes a variety of damage and devastation to a community. Compare a small-scale disaster like this to one of massive destruction and national attention like Hurricane Katrina. When it comes to deploying federal resources, the latter obviously will be the greater priority. But where does that leave those people in Southern Illinois? That's where state urban search-and-rescue teams come in. "It takes a while to activate a Federal Emergency Management ...

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