WASHINGTON -- This week, FEMA leaders participated in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s annual Hurricane Awareness Tour in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida.
Representatives from all levels of government joined community partners to showcase the coordinated approach to hurricane readiness and response, while urging the public to prepare now.
“No one is immune from disasters. Act today to keep yourself, your family and your community safe,” said FEMA Deputy Associate Administrator for Response and Recovery Keith Turi. “The steps you take now matter. Download the FEMA App and sign up for your local community’s emergency alerts. Make an emergency plan. Visit ready.gov or Listo.gov for Spanish speakers, for information on what your emergency plan should include.”
At each stop, the public met FEMA and NOAA hurricane experts, scientists and crew members. Attendees had the unique opportunity to tour aircrafts that help forecasters keep us safe -- NOAA’s WP-3D and the U.S. Air Force Reserve WC-130J.
HOUSTON -- FEMA Deputy Associate Administrator for Response and Recovery Keith Turi provides opening remarks at Ellington Airport Houston. (FEMA photo)
NEW ORLEANS -- FEMA Region 6 Regional Administrator Tony Robinson (left) with John Gharbi and son at Lakefront Airport New Orleans. (FEMA photo)
NEW ORLEANS -- Fourth and fifth-grade students from St. Mary's Academy in New Orleans line up to tour the Air Force Reserves command weather airplane at Lakefront. (FEMA photo)
JACKSON, Miss. -- FEMA Region 4 Regional Administrator Gracia B Szczech (middle) stands with airport workers, Mississippi Emergency Management Agency Executive Director Stephen McCraney, Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba and Meteorologist in Charge National Weather Service Bill Parker at Jackson Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport. (FEMA photo)
JACKSON, Miss. -- FEMA Region 4 Regional Administrator Gracia Szczech chats with crew member Chief Master Sgt. Jay Latham of the Hurricane Hunters team aboard one of the team’s planes at Jackson’s Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport. (FEMA photo)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- (from left) Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis, FEMA Region 4 Regional Administrator Gracia Szczech and Florida Division of Emergency Management Director Kevin Guthrie with flight crew at Tallahassee International Airport. (FEMA photo)
