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Tom Carper: “Incident command decisions have to be made closest to where the disaster is, not up here.”

On the recordOctober 30, 2017
Incident command decisions have to be made closest to where the disaster is, not up here.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware
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Editor's note · Context

Carper emphasizes the importance of local decision-making in disaster response.

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