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Items tagged “FEMA” (13 total)

2006. This is a picture of my FEMA trailer, which was located in front of my house in New…

2006. This is a picture of my FEMA trailer, which was located in front of my house in New…

Rows of white "Cavalier" brand travel trailers parked in neat lines on a paved lot, each with small wooden steps leading to its door, arranged in a large staging area.

Health and living conditions of the displaced in toxic FEMA-supplied trailers.

Eighteen Months After Katrina

Eighteen Months After Katrina

Trying to Make It Home: New Orleans One Year After Katrina

Trying to Make It Home: New Orleans One Year After Katrina

Seven Months After Katrina: Sleeping in Your Car in Front of Your Trailer in Front of Your Devastated Home, Tales of Lunacy and Hope from New Orleans

Seven Months After Katrina: Sleeping in Your Car in Front of Your Trailer in Front of Your Devastated Home, Tales of Lunacy and Hope from New Orleans

FEMA Kicked out Local Staff

FEMA Kicked out Local Staff

Flooded wetland with partially submerged tree trunks and posts, bordered by distant trees, seen from a bridge with a concrete guardrail under a partly cloudy sky.

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Damaged glass high-rise building with missing panels, school buses and parked cars in a lot, two men walking on grass, and street signs reading "Lake Charles Civic Center," "Port of Lake Charles," and "One Way."

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Rain-streaked windshield view of a highway in heavy rain, with a van's hazard lights ahead, overhead green highway signs, and a timestamp reading "24 11:26AM" in the corner.

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Portrait & Narrative of Rodleen Getsic

Portrait & Narrative of Rodleen Getsic

A red flatbed truck with tires in its bed sits parked on a grassy roadside in a quiet residential street lined with houses, trees, and utility poles.

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Interior of a FEMA trailer's sleeping area, showing a bed with a red/maroon sheet, pillows, a sheer curtain-covered window, and beige walls.

FEMA Trailer Bed

A young man sits on the wooden steps of a trailer, with a large American flag mounted beside the stairs and a bucket and cooler nearby.

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