Emergency Quotations | Page 8

We are here to serve the people of Vernon County. We respond to an emergency call immediately and a crew is called to come in as backup. We don't wait because taking that call is our primary purpose. A transfer is different, it takes us out of our area.

I don't believe there is an emergency. I believe there are perceptions of an emergency. I believe this emergency ordinance is not necessary at this time.

I'd be right in the middle of it. You just got to be on the ground immediately, with all your emergency response people.

I cut the emergency switch just in time to keep 'Winnie Mae' from making an exhibition of herself by standing on her nose. That would have been fatal to our hopes.

I am certain more emergency supplemental bills will be needed before this process is concluded. In fact, there is a point I have repeated several times recently which keeps the enormity of this situation in perspective.

We had one lady ... we had an emergency run and she waited an hour to donate stuff.

We'll request immediate clarification. We have an emergency system in place if something happened.

We have the money, we have the housing and we have the emergency personnel. We stand by and are ready to assist.

It had been our assumption that in a domestic emergency, the emergency phase would be effectively handled by the various agencies charged with handling domestic emergencies. Katrina has shaken those assumptions for us, and we've responded accordingly in the absence of a prompt and effective initial response.

It had a definite impact. We were handing phones to emergency service workers and mayors and fire chiefs, allowing them to make their first phone calls out.