Hurricane Katrina Watch: FEMA Director Resigns

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff (C) speaks to reporters, as U.S. Coast Guard Vice Admiral Thad Allen (R) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Director Michael Brown look on, at FEMA’s Hurricane Katrina media center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana September 9, 2005. Brown, the embattled director of FEMA, is resigning, a senior homeland security official said September 12, 2005.

The ASSociated Press has Embattled FEMA Director Mike Brown Resigns.

Federal Emergency Management Agency director Mike Brown said Monday he has resigned “in the best interest of the agency and best interest of the president,” three days after losing his onsite command of the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.

“The focus has got to be on FEMA, what the people are trying to do down there,” Brown told The Associated Press.

Lesson to the President and future Presidents – FEMA Director should be a professional in the area of disaster management not a political appointment.

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