How the GSA responds to emergencies. (General Services Administration) (Disaster Recovery)

Communications News | April 1, 1994| | Copyright

The opening scene: a television camera moves in to show a closeup of the shambles left in the wake of a devastating hurricane. Wires are down, streets are flooded, trees are uprooted, and homes and buildings have been torn to pieces by gale-force winds.

People are wandering around in need of food, water, medicine, sleeping facilities and clothing. Behind-the-scenes delivery of services is invisible.

While the television screen portrays the natural disaster as one of utter chaos, if the television camera wre turned the other way, you would see the delivery ...

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