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So throughout the country firefighters have volunteered to come down to the gulf coast to try to help, when they got here they sat through a day of sexual harassment training and were informed their duties would be to hand out fliers at evacuee centers. When they complained about this egregious waste of resources the FEMA spokesman questioned their commitment to firefighting and the citizens of the community.

http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_3004197

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An "insider's view" as an evacuee (via participatory journalism)

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I've always been a participatory journalist. I guess that's why I really enjoyed Kristin Finan's personal essay as a storm evacuee. ..

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/features/3345755