FEMA External Affairs
DR-1852-ME

Video transcript ��� Penobscot Nation
Duration: 02:06

INTRO SLIDE:
The Penobscot Nation is working with FEMA to prepare for disasters in their community.

VIDEO: Joe Loring, Emergency Management Director and Fire Chief of Penobscot Nation, walks out of his office door.  
JOE LORING: My name is Joe Loring, I���m the Emergency Management Director for the Penobscot Nation.

VIDEO: Shot of red fire engine door. Shot of wooden totem pole then on camera: Joe Loring, followed by a shot of a Penobscot Nation sign. 
JOE LORING: It���s my job to make sure that my tribe has an emergency operations plan that we can use in the event of an emergency. Well the first concern for me is the people of Penobscot Nation. It���s my responsibility to make sure that they���re safe. 

VIDEO: On camera: Joe Loring.
JOE LORING: Well I worry about how my tribe is going to react to any kind of an emergency disaster. 

VIDEO: Black and white photos of Cold War era bomb shelter precautions, a nuclear bomb cloud and a bomb shelter representation.
JOE LORING: Our old plan was more Cold War-ish, it had a lot of things in it to do with nuclear bombs and stuff like that. 

VIDEO: Photo of official FEMA sign inside an office.
JOE LORING: I had turned to FEMA and asked if I could get help to do a new emergency operations plan. 

VIDEO: On camera: Joe Loring, then photo slides of a snow plow, a flooded building and a cracked roadway. 
JOE LORING: It���s a lot different than our old plan, because now we concentrate more on things that will actually happen here [or] more than likely will happen here, such as blizzards, floods, earthquakes���things of that nature. 

VIDEO: Panning shot of the Indian Island School then on camera: Joe Loring. 
JOE LORING: Our shelters have people in them that could take care of people with special needs, such as people in wheelchairs, people that need medications given to them, things of that nature.

VIDEO: Shot of artistic rendition of a totem pole. Shot of men beside a fire department vehicle, then on camera: Joe Loring. 
JOE LORING: Well the next step for the Penobscot Nation is to have FEMA come here to do an exercise to teach all of us, meaning the fire department, the tribe in general, the correct way to handle an emergency when it arises. 

VIDEO: Shot of teepee museum sign then panning shot of teepee. Photo slide of FEMA employee at desk, photo slide of FEMA employee among debris, photo slide of FEMA employee helping individual, photo slide of FEMA employee looking at a pot hole, photo slide of FEMA employee talking to individual. 
JOE LORING: I urge all the tribes to call FEMA and take advantage of all their people that they have work for them. Highly trained individuals to help you do your emergency operations plan, help you do emergency exercises, they have people that can help you get grants. Anything that you need during an emergency situation, FEMA can help you with. 

FINAL SLATE: 
For more information, visit www.fema.gov.