Parish official blasts FEMA
NEW ORLEANS (CNN) — The director of homeland security and emergency preparedness for Jefferson Parish said Thursday the federal response to the disaster caused by Hurricane Katrina was not at all timely and didn’t go according to plan.
“What federal response?” asked Walter Maestri.
“In the plan, the master plan for disaster recovery … we were told that we could expect a full federal response within 48 to 60 hours,” he told CNN in a phone interview from his office in Jefferson Parish, which includes the western suburbs of New Orleans. “We did not receive that.” (Posted: 12:16 p.m.)
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