FEMA to the rescue! (Not so much)

Members of the La Jolla Indian Reservation near San Diego, Calif., just received the first FEMA mobile home for residents displaced after wildfires that left them homeless in October. The homes have been sitting for three weeks at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside, Calif.

The delay in placing the temporary homes has some tribal leaders complaining to the San Diego Union Tribune that bureaucracy has overtaken common sense. FEMA officials said they have procedures they must follow to ensure that the people they help remain safe.

“I've never dealt with such an unorganized outfit ever,” said Rincon Vice Chairman Bo Mazzetti. “All the stuff you hear about Katrina, it's not much better.”

    - Jim Grinstead