>All deployment of any response units to the Hurricane area, must be sent only through official Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) request from one state to another. That is the only way that the responders will be compensated or covered for liability issues. TEMA will compile a list of all resources and personnel who may wish to place themselves on a possible roster for use, sometime in the future. At this time, the Federal Government and all local officials in the disaster area, have informed TEMA (officially), that they do not have the fuel or resources to accept outside responders; no matter how well equipped, trained or prepared they might be. At this time, only State Dept. of Military and State Agency personnel can be considered for EMAC deployment (as stated in the EMAC law). No local Government personnel or resources can be deployed until legal issues can be worked out, among the Compact States. Those issues may take might take a while to work out, if they can
> be worked out, at all. TEMA has been informed by FEMA (Regulation IV), that all response personnel who respond to the disaster area without direct approval by State Emergency Management Agencies, will be turned away from the disaster area, by Federal and State authorities, due to emergency measures that are now in effect.
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>This is what happens when the incompetent lead the unwilling! The more I work for the government, the less I like it.

I've bolded two things that I find incredible. First, that anyone can be a volunteer and yet expect to be compensated. If I'm volunteering something (be it my time, money, blood, labor force), I don't expect any reimbursement, specially not to be paid - or otherwise I'd be selling what nobody asked for.

The more preposterous thing is this liability matter. I once said that if anything will put an end to American way of life, it will be litigation and fear thereof. Now I see it's actually dangerous to American lives per se.