Seven Idaho sheriff's deputies, who gathered up 2 moving vans full of needed items including much needed law enforcement items plus $20,000, were told by FEMA when they got to Lousiana they weren't needed. What made it even worse, they were responding to a call from the sheriff in St. Charles Parish, near NO. The deputies were told by FEMA to take their supplies and return home.
Eventually the Louisiana State Patrol helped distribute the donations to needy families. FEMA refused the help of the deputies! Finally, the deputies did do some patrols with local officers and guarded a warehouse one night.
This is a quote from our local newspaper "But then the Idaho deputies were told they were no longer needed. The officers volunteered to pitch in with patrols in neighboring NO, but were thwarted by the stacks of paper work and special requirements from FEMA."
These kinds of stories just infuriate me!
I guess the deputies now have the names and addresses of Gulf Coast shelters that are accepting supplies and may make a return trip hauling the mounds of donated supplies still remaining in Idaho.
And, then there was the story on the news the other night about the many truck loads of ice that FEMA ordered. Some of those truck loads of ice after meandering over half the United States have now been hauled to Idaho and put into storage here!!!!!!! And, we're not the only state that has ended up with ice because of FEMA's bungling.