Hawaii is a model -- the (Pacific) Tsunami Warning Center, excellent warning systems for hurricanes, good first-responder services. This whole level of providing assurance is important.
Quotes about first-responder (3 Quotes)
We already had all of our first-responder teams pre-deployed -- 32 teams in all -- who went in and staged in and around the hurricane zone and were ready to go by Sunday. This is deployment that requires that the governor make a request to the federal government.
This year, Republicans in Congress cut first-responder homeland security programs by 604 million, and an additional cut of 1.1 billion was requested by the president for fiscal year 2006,