what fema is doing is prepositioning the federal government assets to support each of those governors about to be impacted with achieving their response and recovery goals. that s the way emergency management and disaster response works best. i also like to point out what we learned last year is we have to build a culture of preparedness within our citizens in america. this is a partnership. and it takes anything from neighbor helping neighbor up to the federal government when it comes to correctly responding and recovering. that s a great question. fema doesn t own the power grids in any of these states. a lot of them are owned by private industry. we have business emergency operation center calls. we re concentrating with private vendors to be sure they have strong mutual aid programs in place, and we set up incident support bases to help stage power crews coming in from other states, and largely it is fema s job to get out of the way to
goals. that s the way emergency management and disaster response works best. i also think i would like to point out that what we learned last year is that we have got to build a true culture preparedness within our citizens here in america u this is a partnership. and it takes anything from neighbor helping neighbor all the way to the federal government when it comes to correctly responding in recovery. [inaudible] sure, that s that s a great question. fema doesn t own the power grids in any one of these states. a lookout of them are owned by the private industry. business operation center calls. we are concentrating with the private vendors to make sure that they have strong mutual aid programs in place. we set up incident support bases to help stage power crews coming in from other states. and, largely, it s fema s job to get out of the way to make sure that the private power companies can get into these areas, to set up their grid. we don t own it we don t own it. but, unlike
prepositioning the federal government s assets to support each one of those governors that are about to be impacted with achieving their goals. that s the way emergency management works best. i d like to point out, what we learned last year, we have got to build a true culture of preparedness with our citizens here in america. this is a partnership, and it takes anything from neighbor helping neighbor all the way to the federal government when it comes to responding and recovery. can we ask you about preparations. fema doesn t own the power grids in any one of these states. a lot of them are owned by the private industry. we have business emergency operations center calls, we re concentrating with the private vendors to make sure they have strong mutual aid, and we set up incident support basis to help stage power crews from other states. it s fema s job to make sure