New group targets firehouse problems
Push for money to fix stations stepped up
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
By Coleman Warner
A newly created private foundation supporting New Orleans firefighters aims to first address one hurricane recovery sore point: More than two years after Katrina, little or no money from FEMA's infrastructure repair program has been put to work on destroyed or badly damaged city firehouses.
The New Orleans Firefighters Foundation will pressure officials in the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Mayor Ray Nagin's administration to wring repair money out of the Public Assistance grant program, said the new group's chairman, First NBC Bank President Ashton Ryan.
In the meantime, bankers will study creating a loan pool that could be tapped more immediately for fire station repairs, in anticipation of FEMA grants paying the money back, he said.
And firefighters and community groups, weary of waiting on the federal money, have moved forward on the......

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