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Well to take care of a few questions that I can answere:
1. I have worked two years for them during this part of the season. I work on the local level with our own disasters fires ect.
2. FEMA will not send our units into an area until it is Safe to do so. This takes time for the door to door units many times. This year I was called the first part of August before anything hit and was put on a 72 hour alert.
3. Responders working CR are just about all volunteer or call ups
4. FEMA pays very well I think and expenses are taken care of.
5. What do I do ? No this is where it becomes interesting lol.
FEMA does not care if you are a cop or fireman as this is NOT what you will be doing. Your only goal as a CR is to get the 800 number out to the people so they can register with FEMA and get the help they need. This presented a big problem again this year when the firemen were called up and they thought they were going to be fighting fires ect = Nope. They were mad as heck but hey there was a job to be done and I am not too good to to it so why should they be any different. Last year I worked Logistics in Atlanta setting up DRC and if was good and this year I lucked out and worked Security in a Shelter at San Antonio.
Cal you are right about the fraud in the system and also the ones you are trying to help. Good Grief some were altering the checks from the Red Cross and I think 88 were jailed on the spot. But you have to look past that at the ones that really need the help and the good you can do for them but it is hard at times.
Hope this helps with a little inside insight and I am sure the system will get better after this mess.