BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The retired U.S. Army general who is credited with taking control of the chaos after Hurricane Katrina is pushing for more disaster preparedness efforts.
Russel Honore, who led federal forces after Katrina, says the country needs to build a culture of preparedness and to train people from a young age how to ready themselves for a disaster.
He says preparedness should be taught in schools and first aid should be required training before graduating from college. He also challenged Louisiana’s lawmakers to improve state emergency preparations, including enacting a law that would require pharmacies and gas stations to have generators in case a hurricane or other storm knocks out power.
Honore spoke Wednesday to the annual conference for the Louisiana Association of Nonprofit Organizations.
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