{"id":76,"date":"2008-06-20T08:46:58","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T13:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianschettler.com\/blog\/?p=76"},"modified":"2008-06-20T08:46:58","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T13:46:58","slug":"private-company-vs-the-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianschettler.com\/blog\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"Private Company vs. the Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s kind of sad that it takes a private entity to do a good job at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/LIVING\/06\/19\/heroes.agoglia\/index.html?eref=rss_latest\">recovery efforts<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When his company, Disaster Recovery Solutions, was hired to clean up after storms like <a class=\"cnnInlineTopic\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.cnn.com\/topics\/hurricane_katrina\">Hurricane Katrina<\/a>, he noted that days &#8212; even weeks &#8212; routinely passed before authorities began establishing recovery operations.<\/p>\n<p>Local response officials were often debilitated by a loss of resources, and aid organizations arriving early on the scene with water, medical care and food were unable to reach those in need because of road-blocking debris or flooding.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I got this crazy idea to use one of my cranes to respond immediately to a disaster and just open up roads,&#8221; Agoglia recalls. &#8220;So I deployed equipment immediately. And sure enough, there was a need.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s kind of sad that it takes a private entity to do a good job at recovery efforts: When his company, Disaster Recovery Solutions, was hired to clean up after storms like Hurricane Katrina, he noted that days &#8212; even weeks &#8212; routinely passed before authorities began establishing recovery operations. Local response officials were often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[193],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianschettler.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianschettler.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianschettler.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianschettler.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianschettler.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brianschettler.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianschettler.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianschettler.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianschettler.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}