Via Andy Perry, up update from the Local 50 Website:
Local #50 and Illinois Firefighters were Deployed To New Orleans Wednesday afternoon
Wednesday morning at the Illinois Retired Firefighters Golf Outing in Pekin, Pekin Fire Chief Chuck Lauss informed over 100 retired and active firefighters from around the state about the progress of our state...
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Peoria Firefighters to the rescue update:
More details emerge about FEMA idiocy
FEMA’s response to the disaster is almost farsical, were it not so maddening:
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It’s OK to steal if you’re poor
Question: Name the celebrity who said the following:
“Oh, they’re stealing 20 pair of jeans or they’re stealing television sets. Who cares? They’re not going to go too far with it. Maybe those people are so poor, some of the people who do that they’re so poor they’ve never touched anything in their lives. Let...
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Need info on local rescue efforts? Don’t use PJStar.com
UPDATE: About 30 minutes after I posted this, the site was updated. Two days of missing articles suddenly appeared.
I don’t know if their Webmaster is on vacation or what, but the Journal Star’s Website hasn’t been updates in two days.
Kind of a shame, considering that Peorians need information about how to help Katrina victims,...
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Volunteers needed for evacuee relief
From WMBD 1470:
Volunteers are needed at the Riverside Community Church. The church and Dream Center Peoria continue collecting items such as clothing and personal care products for evacuees scheduled to be brought to Peoria. The drive started Tuesday and Dream Center Executive Director Andy King said the church is flooded with items. He said...
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Change in plans for evacuee relief
From Peoria City Hall:
Due to the construction at the Peoria Civic Center, the City of Peoria and the American Red Cross will be moving the reception center for the survivors of hurricane Katrina from the Civic Center to the City of Refuge Worship Center, 2201 S.W. Adams Street. The move will take place tomorrow...
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Smoking gun at FEMA
If you ask me, this guy is toast:
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Peoria firefighters update
Via an email:
Day 2: (9/6/05) Local #50 Members and the Illinois contingent are on the LSU Campus in Baton Rouge.
They will be getting their inoculations, briefing and a good nights sleep before heading into New Orleans. Probably one of the outlying parishes. They will be doing firefighting, search and rescue as...
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There’s enough blame to go around
I agree with Jeff Berkowitz’s take on the blame game:
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Another Peorian concerned about the future
Polly Peoria is just as worried as I am about the government’s ability to perform emergency relief if another major terrost attack occurs:
The same government entities responsible for this weeks agonizing slow rescue are the same entities stating another terrorist attack is inevitable. If we can’t shelter a city from a hurricane, one clearly...
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Another Peorian to assist Katrina recovery
Dave Dahl reports that JMP’s chief engineer (and radio personality) Wayne R. Miller will travel to Biloxi, Miss., to help get radio stations back on the air.
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Donations needed for local evacuees
The details are here:
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Putting the Civic Center to good use
The Journal Star says some information about the evacuees coming to Peoria. They are going to be processed at the Peoria Civic Center in what may be the first essential governmental function ever performed at the taxpayer financed facility.
Here’s an idea: Open up some of those vacant homes in RiverWest.
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A liberal makes a case against gun control
The liberal this time is Eric Zorn:
But, again, the complete breakdown of order in New Orleans during the ongoing crisis again illustrates what so many are referring to as the “thin veneer of civilization” and makes at least this cautious person wonder — if I’m ever in a chaotic situation in which police...
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CNN shoots off its mouth
Read these paragraphs carefully:
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Obama predicts hearings on Katrina response
Ill. Sen. Barack Obama declines to blame President Bush alone for the obvious lack of preparedness in New Orleans:
Honestly, I think that there is a lot of blame that can be spread around…my expectation would be that we have hearings in Washington to figure out what exactly went wrong and how we are going...
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Zorn is worried and so am I
The Chicago Tribune columnist looks at the government’s response to Katrina and came to an unsettling conclusion:
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N.O.’s vulnerability was no secret
Scientific American also predicted the New Orleans disaster:
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Scientists knew New Orleans was doomed
Via Little Green Footballs, I found this link to a National Geographic article that predicted exactly what happened:
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I agree: Why rebuild New Orleans?
I’m glad he said it first.
Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert said doesn’t make sense, and the New Orleans media is all over the story.
I don’t disagree. I don’t know why my tax dollars should be used to rebuild an area that’s prone to devastation because of geography.
If there’s an economic reason for it...
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