Marty Bahamonde Quotations

Sir, I know that you know the situation is past critical. The sooner we can get the medical patients out, the sooner we can get them out.

If we err on the side of helping people and have to ask for it back later, that's what we're doing now.

I can't get out of my head the visions of children and babies I saw sitting there, helpless, looking at me and hoping I could make a difference... .

He just said, 'Thank you,' and that he was going to call the White House.

I think there was a systematic failure at all levels of government to understand the magnitude of the situation.

Every DMAT team in this country is deployed.

...the situation is past critical... hotels are kicking people out, thousands gathering in the streets with no food or water... estimates are many will die within hours.

There's the perception that we didn't do anything. But we had a life-saving mission, which we met, and we had a life-sustaining mission, which we met.

If you wear a FEMA shirt into the office, when you leave work have a change of clothing in your car so when you go into a restaurant you're not wearing FEMA clothing. FPS gave us guidelines, certainly not to make us worry, but to be more aware of our situation.

The mayor was devastated. He knew his city was damaged beyond what they'd realized. There were women in the room crying. It was a very emotional meeting.