‘We will fail again,' FEMA ex-chief says

 
By Chad Previch
Published: September 21, 2007

TULSA — The country is not prepared for another Hurricane Katrina because of layers of bureaucracy, the former Federal Emergency Management Agency director told Oklahoma officials Thursday.

Michael Brown , a Guymon native and FEMA director during Katrina, told state emergency management officials to be prepared for federal responders to push them aside during the next major disaster in an attempt to prove ...


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