Eric Lamoureux Quotes (5 Quotes)

When you prepare for the consequences of a terrorist situation, you are preparing yourself inevitably for an earthquake, fire or flood. You're looking at the same consequences.

I'm not going to be naive and tell you if we have an extremely devastating earthquake, there's not going to be short-term communication failures. But we make sure that first responders have redundant radios and satellite phones.

We are certainly pleased by the president's actions and look forward to working with FEMA (Federal Emergency management Agency) to get assistance going to the home and business owners hardest hit by the storms.

At this point, they (FEMA) don't have plans to move refugees anywhere other than where they are at this time.

Other states rely much more heavily on their state government and the federal government to come in and manage the support. In California, emergencies are managed on the local level.