Tornado disaster victims ask, 'Where's FEMA?'

David Edwards and Mike Sheehan

Published: Wednesday March 7, 2007 Print This Email This

Days after tornadoes devastated their town, citizens in Hope, Arkansas are crying out that they still has not received help from FEMA, the federal government's emergency management agency.

As 8,000 government mobile homes sit unused only 160 miles away, FEMA says it can't employ them until the tornado-ravaged area is declared a federal disaster area, CNN reports. As that has yet to happen, the trailers sit idle.

"It's unacceptable, it's reprehensible, and it's a symbol of what's wrong with FEMA," says Rep. Mike Ross (D-AR), who later announced in a press release that a Congressional hearing is to be held on the lack of federal response to the tornadoes.



