Pet facilities at Qualcomm Stadium, clowns to entertain children at the stadium, cooperation between agencies, 280,000 bottles of water- all the product of lessons from Hurricane Katrina applied to the Southern California fires:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/23/fire.fema/index.html
Homeland Security is about more than terrorism.
BCB
[...] are living on the edge and creating a built-up environment where a confluence of events can spark comparisons to the ultimate natural disaster in recent American history, Hurricane [...]