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California has learned important lessons from Hurricane Katrina, officials say, and in the year since the Gulf Coast disaster those lessons have trickled down to the local level.
Thousands of city employees - ranging from city managers to librarians - are trained in state and federal guidelines for emergency preparedness, said Brenda Hunemiller, disaster management area coordinator for the Office of Civil Defense and Disaster Management.See the full content of this document
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Agencies Prepare for Next Disaster
"I think probably a very, very big \ is ... not to wait for someone else to come in and take care of local problems," Hunemiller said. "The disasters happen on our own streets ... We have to be our big rescuers."
Hunemiller, whose office is bas...See the full content of this document
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