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1. 1. Press-Telegram - News

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   Published on: 12/10/2005   Last Visited: 12/11/2005

   Kevin Clark, an emergency analyst in the Office of the Regional Director at FEMA, said FEMA provides the state budget $2 million a year for earthquake planning, preparation and regulation. Clark, Sellers and Lucille Jones, scientist in charge of Southern California's Earthquake Hazards Team with the U.S. Geological Survey, agreed everyone should pick up a free pamphlet titled, "Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country."

2. 2. National Congress of Vietnamese Americans (NCVA) Reporter Weekly News Edition

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   Published on: 10/11/2005   Last Visited: 10/27/2006

   FEMA refers to them as those "who evacuated by self-deployment," said Kevin Clark, FEMA spokesman in Oakland. "These self-deployed people came to California because they had a connection, a mechanism for arrival and help like members of their families, friends and church connections," Clark said.
   
   Most Gulf Coast victims, he explained, were not interested in leaving their homes, jobs and families, and traveling far away, even temporarily.

3. 3. With push from activists, Loma Prieta stirred low-income housing renaissance

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   Published on: 10/3/2005   Last Visited: 10/4/2005

   FEMA spokesman Kevin Clark said that, tempered by experience not only in Oakland but in many disasters since then, his agency would quickly produce similar rebuilding funds in any future quake. The same will probably apply in the Gulf Coast hurricane zone, he said, even considering that the disaster area is so extensive.
   
   "We have learned that in a disaster environment, the decisions are always made at the local level," Clark said. "We let the local governmental agencies take the lead, and we give the money to them.
   
   "After all, they know how to use it best."
   
   In any case, be it the Bay Area in a quake or hurricane-ravaged New Orleans, those preparing to go to bat for their communities need to remember one thing, Clark said.