FEMA: Week in Review Louisiana Recovery Office New Orleans, LA  Aug. 8-11: State Legislative Concerns Annual Summit, San Antonio, TX. Aug. 10: Wesley Barrow Stadium ground-breaking ceremony, New Orleans. Aug. 12-16: National Emergency Management Association Annual Conference, Des Moines, IA. Aug. 14-21: Law Enforcement National Conference, Chicago. Aug. 15-19: Floodplain Mapping and NFIP Reform Annual Conference, Nashville, TN. Aug. 29: Hurricane Katrina 6th anniversary. Katrina/Rita: 65 occupied units Calendar Are You Prepared? Housing Update For those living along the Gulf Coast, August and September usually bring the greatest threat of a sig­nificant hurricane. Federal, state and local officials con­tinually work on ways to prepare residents for natu­ral disasters. Yet, the primary responsi­bility of being prepared falls on the individual resident. Always be prepared and know how to keep your family safe. Take this fun quiz to find how well you are prepared in case of an emergency.  
August 5, 2011  
Announcements  
FEMA Awards More Funding For Plaquemines Medical Facility FEMA recently awarded more than $7.9 million in additional public assistance funding to the Plaquemines Medical Center Hospital Service District #1 for their post-Katrina consolidated hospital project. With this grant, FEMA has now provided more than $24.6 million for the new hospital’s construction, which will combine medical services from two, pre-Katrina facilities—Plaquemines’ Medical Hospital and Medical Human Resources Annex building. Once completed, Plaquemines Parish will have a new, three-story facility in Port Sulphur. The two original buildings were destroyed during the storm. The Plaquemines Medical Center Hospital Service District #1 got approval from FEMA to allow the buildings’ replacement funding to be used to construct the new combined medi­cal facility. “Without FEMA’s assistance, the construction of our new medical facility would not be possible,” said Jimmy Cappiello, board chairman of the Plaquemines Medical Center Hospital Service District #1. The new $7.9 million grant will pay for additional square footage for elevators, stairs and circulation space to comply with safety rules, as well as elevating the new hospital to meet minimum requirements under National Flood Insurance Program regulations. New Orleans Volunteer Group To Assist With Evacuation For the past two months, a volunteer group in New Orleans has been training to help the city with the evacuation of thousands of residents in case of a major hurricane. Evacuteer.org, which was established in 2009, recruits, trains and manages evacuation volunteers to assist the New Orleans’ public evacuation plan called the City Assisted Evacuation Plan (CAEP). The CAEP activates when a mandatory evacuation is called in the city and is designed to move 25,000-30,000 residents who do not have their own transpor­tation. Through an existing agreement with the City of New Orleans Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (NOHSEP), the city has au­thorized evacuteer.org to manage all volunteers who work within the CAEP at 17 neighborhood pick-up points, as well as to assist with hotline operations at City Hall, during an evacuation. Thus far, more than 200 volunteers have trained with evacuteer.org, which has been assisted by other volunteers from Tulane University in developing its  
Contacts News Desk: (504) 762-2477 External Affairs Director, Andrea Davis: (504) 247-6628 / Andrea.Davis1@dhs.gov IGA and Congressional Affairs Lead, Lynette Fontenot: (504) 232-8602/ Lynette.Fontenot@dhs.gov F
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evacuation plan. For more information, visit the evacuteer.org website.  Gustav/Ike: 12 occupied units