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Article: DISASTER PET PLAN THAT WORKED FOR SAN DIEGO
- Article from:
- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 29, 2007
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following press release:
Whether it's puppies, parakeets or pythons, Californians love their pets and leaving them behind when disaster strikes is not an option. San Diego had a disaster pet plan for the California wildfires, and it worked.
To qualify for grants from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, under the Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards Act signed by President Bush in October 2006, state and local emergency preparedness officials must include an emergency plan for pets and service animals. San Diego County had a comprehensive disaster plan in place and was prepared. They saw to ...