Unfortunately the whole article in the Salt Lake paper is no longer entirely
accessible:
>
> This article from today's Salt Lake Tribune tells the story of about a
> thousand firefighters from around the country who volunteered to serve
> in the Katrina devastation areas. But when they arrived in Atlanta to
> be shipped out to various disaster zones in the region, they found out
> that they were going to be used as FEMA community relations
> specialists. And they were to spend a day in Atlanta getting training
> on community relations, sexual harassment awareness, et al. This of
> course while life and death situations were still the order of the day
> along a whole stretch of the Gulf Coast.
>
> It's an article you've really got a to read to appreciate the full
> measure of folly and surreality.
>
> But the graf at the end of the piece really puts everything in
> perspective, and gives some sense what the Bush administration really
> has in mind when it talks about a crisis. The paper reports that one
> team finally was sent to the region ...
> As specific orders began arriving to the firefighters in Atlanta, a
> team of 50 Monday morning quickly was ushered onto a flight headed for
> Louisiana. The crew's first assignment: to stand beside President Bush
> as he tours devastated areas.
>
> You can't make this stuff up.
> -- Josh Marshall
>
> http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_3004197
>
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