Local Emergency Experts Overhaul Disaster Plans

[SOURCE: Wall Street Journal, AUTHOR: Eric Bontrager eric.bontrager@wsj.com]
Across the country, state and local emergency planners are making sweeping changes to plans to manage and recover from disasters. Drawing cues from problems that arose after Hurricane Katrina -- and following Wilma's rampage through Florida this week -- local emergency experts are making changes to improve communications among local, state and federal authorities and to evacuate citizens quickly. Figuring out how to pay for upgrading emergency plans is another task for state and local officials. In the past, much of the money has come from FEMA, often with a match from the state.
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