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Calif. wildfires give FEMA chance to clean up image |
| After several bad years, FEMA is working overtime to burnish its image. Emergency management experts say it will be difficult to gauge FEMA's competence based on its response in Southern California. The wildfires were a much smaller-scale disaster than Katrina, and didn't wipe out entire towns or cripple vital infrastructure and government. |
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| Vehicle protection system counters rollover hazards |
| While a failure to use seat belts accounts for some deaths and many more injuries, being belted up only offers limited protection in incidents such as rollovers. |
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The Atlanta Fire Department had little warning of the first tornado to hit the city's downtown in recorded history — eight minutes to be exact.