Texas flood response faces scrutiny
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Disaster Recovery Centers are set to open in Kerr County on Friday, July 25, and in Travis County on Saturday, July 26, to provide face-to-face assistance to su
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Ingram officials have been waiting to hear from Kerr County’s emergency management coordinator after feeling as if they were on their own during the devastating July 4 flooding.
Testimony will be heard from those in charge of managing rivers as well as emergency managers and first responders about the flash flooding that killed at least 135 people.
Ken Pagurek, a longtime Philadelphia firefighter who served as chief of FEMA’s search and rescue branch for the past year, was well-versed in major disaster response.
Former FEMA official Jeremy Edwards joined Morning Joe after the resignation of the agency’s Urban Search and Rescue chief, who reportedly quit over the Trump administration’s delayed response to deadly flooding in Texas.
Several states and two Native American tribes waited months for disaster aid, while hundreds of requests for critical emergency services remain on hold.
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Mediaite on MSNHouse Democrat Grills Trump’s FEMA Boss About Deadly Texas Flood: Do the Victims ‘Deserve an Apology?’"You seem uninterested in learning what went wrong and how to respond better. Do the victims and survivors in Texas deserve an apology?" The post House Democrat Grills Trump’s FEMA Boss About Deadly Texas Flood: Do the Victims ‘Deserve an Apology?