In fire's path, lessons learned | csmonitor.com

In fire's path, lessons learned | csmonitor.com:

"...attention is shifting to the federal government's performance, with this question uppermost: What have US agencies learned since their botched response to hurricane Katrina in 2005? ....'They do seem to have learned a lot from Katrina and the 2003 fires here,' says Richard Carson, an economics professor at University of California, San Diego, who studies governmental agency response to emergencies. 'They saw the fire coming and plotted it out and moved people out"