Relief worker: A lot went right with FEMA

Sean C. Morgan

Of The New Era

Lupe Wilson thinks the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency has gotten a bad rap over Hurricane Katrina.

Wilson of Sweet Home, a U.S. Forest Service employee who assisted in the post-hurricane relief effort in Louisiana, got an up-close look at how FEMA, which took heavy criticism from hurricane victims and from state and local officials in Louisiana and Mississippi, operated.

Sure, FEMA had problems, Wilson said, but those…

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