Michael Chertoff Resources Quotations

I think we have discovered over the last few days that with all the tremendous effort using the existing resources and the traditional frameworks of the National Guard, the unusual set of challenges of conducting a massive evacuation in the context of a still dangerous flood requires us to basically break the traditional model and create a new model -- one for what you might call kind of an ultracatastrophe,

We are in the process of doing everything within our power to get resources down to the state of Florida, ... everybody's patience and forbearance.

FEMA has better resources and ... it brings more to the table now than it did in the previous five, six, seven years.

Federal, state and local resources have been fully mobilized,

including a permanent deputy director to augment the resources available to assist with FEMA's vital mission.

Not only did they offer their prayers, but their resources as well,

By all measures, Hurricane Katrina was the largest natural disaster that FEMA has ever been called upon to support, ... Although FEMA pre-positioned significant numbers of personnel, assets and resources before the hurricane made landfall, we now know its capabilities were simply overwhelmed by the magnitude of this storm.