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Now that we've got the emergency of the hurricane out of the way, we want to look at preventing more destruction.

Nevada pledges its full support to the victims of Hurricane Katrina and will commit its resources to easing the burden on the area's emergency responders, ... I urge all Nevadans to take a moment to consider what each of us can do to contribute to the ongoing relief efforts in these devastated areas.

Next week we will start looking in earnest at how to resettle people. Giving them food aid is just the start of a much bigger part of this emergency campaign.

Nobody who works full time should have to raise children in poverty or in fear that one health emergency or pink slip will drive them over the cliff.

People will learn things like emergency first aid, how to cook with no power and how to find shelter in an emergency.

Peterson's experience in emergency management and as a fire chief will make him a highly effective Region VI director. His first hand knowledge and experience will be vital as FEMA works with its regional partners on all aspects of emergency management.

Potentially on a very hot day in the Central Valley or Southern California, with very stagnant air, it might lead to a violation of federal ozone standards. But this is an emergency situation. ... And the consequences of the hurricane here are minor compared with what is happening in the Mississippi Delta.

Politics is a tough game. But would I change places with a trauma nurse in an emergency ward on a busy Saturday night? No way. There are lots of jobs in the world that are tougher than politics. And politicians and people who've done it need to remember that.

Nevertheless, there are gaps in receiving funding or planning for emergency preparedness, ... We must identify and address them, because these issues will remain with us for years to come. Unfortunately, there is no quick fix.

I got so excited I fell down the stairs and broke my hand. They told me I needed to leave, but I waited to go to the emergency room when I got back (home) to West Des Moines.

I have declared a state of emergency at American Airlines. This declaration is an official recognition that hard as it may be to accept our company's very survival depends on dramatic change to our operations, our schedule, and worst of all our staffing levels.

I have fought to provide emergency assistance for farmers and ranchers to help respond to the downturn in the economy.

I don't believe there is an emergency. I believe there are perceptions of an emergency. I believe this emergency ordinance is not necessary at this time.

I'd be right in the middle of it. You just got to be on the ground immediately, with all your emergency response people.

I cut the emergency switch just in time to keep 'Winnie Mae' from making an exhibition of herself by standing on her nose. That would have been fatal to our hopes.

I am certain more emergency supplemental bills will be needed before this process is concluded. In fact, there is a point I have repeated several times recently which keeps the enormity of this situation in perspective.

I am declaring a state of emergency because of the clear threat to the nation.

I am aware that the money we have given to Emergency is nothing compared to the millions spent on players, and I feel embarrassed. I understand that these figures are worrisome. They worry me also. But when you are the head of a business like Inter, you assume the responsibility of offering a quality product. These figures that circulate are normal in the industrial world, but they are not so well known, while in football everything is public.

I am glad that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has recognized the problems with its contracting methods,

I believe that South Carolina is ahead of the curve in emergency planning, and that we are as prepared as our current level of funding allows.

I am saddened to have to report that, following emergency surgery that we had hoped would correct a sudden deterioration in her condition, my niece Susan Ann Catherine Torres has passed away after only five short weeks with us,

Catholics, just like the rest of the state, would support such a law, even requiring Catholic hospitals to provide emergency contraceptives.

Basically, the motels are our emergency shelters, and Paul is our shelter director.

Imagine. You're rushed into the emergency room. Your chest is tight. Your breathing, labored. Your pulse is faint. A cardiologist appears at your side. Immediate surgery is your only hope. The surgeon's hand reaches toward the instrument tray. At that moment, does it matter whether the hand that holds the scalpel is black, white, or brown?

I'm already so wet that if I stay, I'll end up in the emergency room.

I have an emergency service. I'll go out any time to help someone figure out what's wrong.

I found that quiet place in my home that is my place of refuge. I don't care if you got kids or if you are married. You got to find that one place that is your everybody-off-limit place: unless this place is on fire, or you need to go to the emergency room, don't disturb me. You can go to this place and cleanse, meditate, let God speak to you.

Given the complexities of emergency management in this country, and the increasing professionalism of the community, it seems curious to me that we wouldn't appoint someone who comes out of that tradition.

Given the amount of money we spend on our health care system, it would be pretty scandalous if we weren't high up there. We get an 'A' in access (to emergency care), only because the rest of the darn nation is so bad.

Getting help to our colleagues is problematic at this time due to emergency restrictions. However we are preparing our plan and will be ready with immediate assistance when supply routes are open.

From what I've seen, I think the competitors blew the opportunity. They used it as an opportunity to strut their stuff and say how great they are. It would have been smart for at least one of them to take the high road and do something like offer emergency service using their product for free for example.

If a patient comes in with chest pains, we'll hook them up for an EKG and do other tests. Patients stay in the emergency room until all tests are finished. We want to make sure a patient is stabilized (before release).

If Arkansas has enough damage, it will become a federal disaster area, and the homeowners can get more money when it comes to temporary housing assistance. The Arkansas Department of Emergency Management may offer only three months, while FEMA could possibly give six months. It will be more money for the families to get them get back on their feet.

If an election has to happen, our executive of our party have told me they're in a position to have an emergency leader chosen and they can do that. So, I'm not worried about that.

God forbid if anything like that happened again, the emergency ferry boat landing would already by in place.

If it's life or limb threatening, we recommend the emergency room, and we still work closely with Methodist Hospitals. But if a cook cuts himself or an employees hurts their back or knee, we can treat them. We're a one stop shop, we currently have three clinics and are hoping to expand.

I got an emergency phone call from my daughter around 10 a.m. She called and was pretty hysterical that her house was on fire.

If we are in an emergency weather situation and the land lines go down, we have cell phones.

If the emergency center is going to bring in new patients, a critical care section will be absolutely necessary.

I always knew that if there ever were an issue, it would be better to take care of it then as opposed to in an emergency setting.

He woke up this morning complaining of lower intestinal problems and was taken by ambulance to the Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs for emergency medical attention.

He has been pretty active with these emergency boards, ... If there is a strike, I think it's highly probable it will be short. If there is no intervention, I think it could drag out for the weekend. At this point I'm assuming logic would prevail, it wouldn't go on much longer than that.

Had somebody even followed up and sent a policeman like they did on the later call, really, to admonish Robert, rather than to help his mother, perhaps we wouldn't be here. But no one came at all. All that happened was that Robert was threatened and, really, intimidated from doing what his mother had taught him to do, which was to make an emergency call in an emergency situation.

He held onto that stuffed animal the whole time he was in the emergency room.

He is going essentially to speak at the highest level about emergency assistance to Yugoslavia ... but also to discuss how to support Yugoslavia in the longer-term.

We can do emergency shelter, we have to put them up in hotels, and then we have to take them out of county. We put her in a hotel, and she goes home the next day.

There is a growing emergency for more than 56,000 children who are believed to be suffering from moderate and severe malnutrition in affected areas. the figure is expected to rise dramatically over the next three months.

There is no gas except to fuel emergency vehicles,

We've been told time and time again that we are prepared for any emergency that comes, that we're ready. We're obviously not.

We're probably looking at short term, that's from now until January. But there are also emergency loans which start from one month and can be extended to three so they are a possibility as well.

What I learned from 9/11 that is really important, first and foremost, you have to motivate all the workers and understand that they've left their families to help clean up a pretty awful situation. Every time you have an emergency management situation, it's all about teamwork.

We've got to keep our emergency vehicles going.

With major insurance companies diverting patients from emergency rooms to our clinic we have expectations of exceeding the original number of 30 patients a day.

We are experiencing the same kinds of problems that are no different from those faced by most other hospitals in the country. Hospitals are losing money because we are receiving lower state and federal reimbursements for patient treatments and are having more uninsured and under-insured patients using emergency rooms as their primary care physicians.

Today I resigned as director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, ... As I told the president, it is important that I leave now to avoid further distraction from the ongoing mission of FEMA.

Here we have 40,000 people and if we had a day or two notice we could probably get everybody out if we had to evacuate the entire city, ... Every emergency plan presupposes one thing, that there will be infrastructure to work off of, a road to drive down, some way to get a generator going to get electricity. If your city is underwater, when you reach a disaster of that magnitude it simply overwhelms any plan.

God puts the right people together. We want clothes in decent shape and suitcases and backpacks to carry stuff around in, canned goods, bottled water. Our goal is to leave Sunday for Jackson, Mississippi...We chose that because no emergency workers have showed up, but we're hoping for three vans full.

Good disaster response planning requires broad involvement of several community groups. Pediatricians, local school officials, school nurses, public health officials, emergency officials and school physicians should work together to improve the preparedness of schools for the unwelcome possibility of a mass casualty event.

He's all right. We were very concerned, but we took him right to the emergency room. He says he feels fine. In a way, he snapped out of it real quick, for the most part.

He's been trying to create the conditions necessary for a state of emergency because that's the only way he can postpone this election.

Historically, and unfortunately, and this doesn't reflect on Allen County's situation, law enforcement often is slow to come around to being willing to involve the emergency management coordinator, perhaps due to a reluctance to sharing the responsibility,

He's bigger than a doctor. Joe is the team doctor, but he is also the biggest cheerleader and also the emergency coach. He would probably fly the team plane if he could or drive the bus if he had to. That's how he feels about the organization.

There are no outstanding emergency situations now, as far as health and safety are concerned.

There is a perception that the emergency conditions have passed because we're now in the reconstruction phase. This is wrong. The problems are so great, the humanitarian needs are so immense, that the emergency continues.

There is an emergency provision within FISA, and one could ask for more authority. If they had good reason Congress would have given it to them.

Under our new organization, you will have defense coordinating officers and their staffs located within the 10 (Federal Emergency Management Agency) regions.

We looked more carefully at our emergency generator and our fuel supply, and our capability to provide uninterrupted power if we lost power,

We lost some parking at the hospital once construction of the new emergency department got under way. We will add about 40 spaces once construction is complete. (But) we know there still isn't enough parking. Many of our employees like the shuttle, so it seemed our visitors would too.

Hurricane Katrina, a disaster for our neighboring states, has created emergency conditions in Texas that will require all available resources of both federal and state governments to overcome,

Hundreds of national and international humanitarian staff have been working in what has become the largest winter emergency operation ever.

I actually failed my first license test. I got an automatic fail. I guess I had been doing well but she had to pull the emergency brake so obviously there was a problem. I remember them handing me my fail paper and me just bursting into tears.

I agree, ... In rural Kansas, in the event of an emergency, people aren't going to look to an emergency management coordinator. They're going to look to the sheriff's department for help.

He could catch in an emergency now, but we'll rest him,

He is truly an honorable man. He has an incredible wealth of knowledge about everything: about the ocean, about government, about this community, about public safety, about emergency response.

Key to the successful implementation of any emergency plan is the level of cooperation between local, state and federal officials, ... The tragedy in the Gulf States illustrates just how important it is to plan and prepare for the worst.

just wouldn't be tenable on more than an emergency basis.

I think it's good business to enhance any services we have, ... (The trauma center designation) requires a certain level of education and training that you don't necessarily do for the usual emergency room. All of our nurses have gone through a trauma nurse training center. When people hear that you have that higher level of training, people do come.

I think it's an excellent opportunity to help out, ... It's also going to be a learning experience. This is the largest mobilization of emergency personnel we've ever seen.

It is absolutely critical that America's public health emergency system be prepared to respond to new and emerging terrorist threats.

I think the incentives there are pretty strong to use the supplemental. It doesn't play the same way when you call it emergency funding.

I think the important thing to remember is in emergency management you prepare for the worst. Whether there had been a breach or topping of the levees you still need to be getting rescue people in there immediately.

I think the deployment strategy we have right now for our ambulances isn't the optimum model. The current system we have is a very good one, but with the status quo there is a problem in the outlying areas. If you have a critical emergency in some spots in the county you could be waiting a long time and in some cases, that could be too long.

Last night, a man came into the emergency room suffering from flu symptoms.

I thought the emergency vehicle workshop was especially interesting for the children. This event is a great idea for children who might have issues with going to the doctor's office. I think my son learned a lot. This has been very educational.

I think we've been one of the real innovative states. It doesn't mean we don't argue and fight we do because we're human. But what will sustain the state of Washington is that we have an awful lot of dedicated emergency managers who have worked together for years.

I think a few of them were back there today as well. At this point we are still trying to determine what his medical emergency was ... or whether there were other factors.

I think it's unfair to blame President Bush here, ... What I would blame is the bureaucratic red tape throughout the system that is out of control with little credibility and way too turf-conscience. Rather than point fingers in blame, the state and the federal governments need to develop a new emergency system.

It had been our assumption that in a domestic emergency, the emergency phase would be effectively handled by the various agencies charged with handling domestic emergencies. Katrina has shaken those assumptions for us, and we've responded accordingly in the absence of a prompt and effective initial response.

It had a definite impact. We were handing phones to emergency service workers and mayors and fire chiefs, allowing them to make their first phone calls out.

I think this should be treated as an emergency matter,

I think this serves as a wakeup call to Wisconsin policymakers and consumers, ... We have an emergency situation with regard to health care costs and we need to act quickly.

It is not just ticket sales. It is parking nightmares, rest rooms, emergency personnel, safety and security plans and any number of jobs that create the regional tournament. Just making sure there is cold pop for 5,000 people is a huge endeavor.

It is important to be progressive, and this technology helps us stay current with the latest innovations for saving lives. It's exciting to work with emergency room physicians to make it possible for patients to receive earlier intervention which can result in healthier lives for our residents.

I think we're in an emergency situation right now,

I think they should have let the parents know right away and sent an emergency memo right away.

It is a scandal in our minds that four years after 9/11, we have not yet set aside radio spectrum to insure that police, firefighters and emergency medical technicians can communicate reliably during any kind of attack or any kind of major disaster.

It is a medical emergency so these people really need to be removed.

Japan is out of the emergency room and normal monetary policy has returned. Japan will try to keep interest rates as low as possible.

I support this resolution wholeheartedly because it is very important that all of West Hartford's residents have a sense of safety and security in case there is an emergency situation.

On Wednesday, we had four to five patients come to the emergency room with problems due to their running generators in closed areas.