Events Related to the Superdome Evacuation-Hurricane Katrina

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• FEMA officials lacked training, equipment, staff and expertise to respond adequately to handle catastrophic events like Hurricane Katrina
• Plans had been put on hold to evacuate victims because there was a change in command from Phillip Parr to Army Lt. Gen. Russell Honore

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• The Military "takes issues with the term 'mission assignments'"and seek approval by the head of the FEMA named William Carwil who was based in Mississippi
• The result of changing of changing the commanders resulted in plans getting pushed back which meant people has to spend another day in the horrible conditions of the Superdome.

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US Government/FEMA Response to Hurricane Katrina Victims

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• There was a failure of relations between the Louisiana governor and the president over who should lead the FEMA
• FEMA was not prepared correctly from the storm they were getting ready to have.
• A lot of investigations have succeeded following the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina which has ravaged New Orleans and other places to discover what went wrong.

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Water Contamination and Disease-Post-Katrina

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• The waters had been contaminated with a toxic Gumbo
• The Gumbo that was in the water were toxins consisting of polluted sediments, dead bodies, sewage, typhoid, West Nile virus, and various types of food poisoning.
• The hospitals were worried where they would get there water from because all of it would be contaminated.

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