FEMA

[Cal Sibley]

I worked for FEMA for one year before retiring. This was office work, taking the applications by phone in Maryland. I'm never amazed anymore at how low my fellow man will stoop. Among the really needy people hit hard by disasters were scattered people who were simply out to rob the system for whatever they could get. We found people registered under multiple names, registered for disasters in more than one part of the country, found people with as high as five different help applications from different disasters in various regions. There's a lot of caring, hard working people at FEMA who put in impossibly long hours, yet they often encounter people who seem to come out of the cracks in the walls at times like this. It's sad, but some of us have actually sunk to this level. It hurts the Agency's reputation and certainly doesn't do anything for the truly needy during crisiss
times. Best wishes.

Cal - Montreal