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The Penobscot Nation is working
with FEMA to prepare for
disasters in their community.
My name is Joe
Management Director for the
Penobscot Nation.
It's my job to
make sure that my tribe has
an emergency operations plan
that we can use in the event of
an emergency. Well the first
concern for me is the people of
Penobscot Nation. It's my
responsibility to make sure that
they're safe.
Well I worry about
how my tribe is going to react
to any kind of an
emergency disaster.
Our old plan was
more Cold War-ish, it had a lot
of things in it to do with
nuclear bombs and stuff like that.
I had turned to
FEMA and asked if I could get
help to do a new emergency
operations plan.
It's a lot different
than our old plan, because now
we concentrate more on things that
will actually happen here [or]
more than likely will happen
here, such as blizzards, floods,
earthquakes things of
that nature.
Our shelters have people
in them that could take care of
people with special needs, such as
people in wheelchairs, people that
need medications given to them,
things of that nature.
Well the next step for
the Penobscot Nation is to have
FEMA come here to do an exercise
to teach all of us, meaning the
fire department, the tribe in general,
the correct way to handle an
emergency when it arises.
I urge all the tribes to
call FEMA and take advantage of all
their people that they have work for
them. Highly trained individuals to
help you do your emergency operations
plan, help you do emergency exercises,
they have people that can help you
get grants. Anything that you need
during an emergency situation,
FEMA can help you with.
For more information, visit www.fema.gov.