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Under 34 percent. Now you are always going to have your Safety Equipment with you, correct . When you get together as you assemble, make sure you have, at least one person has something here that you guys can all use. Different types of buildings are in the city. We have wood, unreinforced masonry, you have high rise and you have tilt ups. Whats the safest construction type to be . Four stories or less. Wood . Yeah, wood framed building. Why is wood the safest building to be in, 4 stories or less . It flexes, yeah, its flexible. Whats the danger here . Chimney, yeah, fireplace. Be aware of the...

Wood up above. Its all brick because its deep set windows. Here we go with part of the roof and the parapet. This is over on inaudible street. See where the bricks fell, right on top of a car. There were 5 people in that car. Buildings like this, you are nearest, wheres the best place to be, do you think . You want to be far away from it . You want to be far away from it initially . Yeah. But what if you are not far away from it when it starts happening, are you going to try to outrun it . No. You want to get up close to that building because the bricks have a tendency to fall out, fall straig...

Action report after the next nightmare scenario it read, we failed to utilize some of the capabilities we had inside and outside our life line. The American People are expecting us to get it right. They are not expecting perfection, they are not expecting huge gaps. They are not expecting some of the missed cues and gaffes that occurs in the gulf port area during katrina. They expected us to learn from that and indeed we have. I caution you again, we are not prepared, we are not prepared for the next nightmare scenario, but we can better prepare ourselves every day with the activities you are ...

Under 34 percent. Now you are always going to have your Safety Equipment with you, correct . When you get together as you assemble, make sure you have, at least one person has something here that you guys can all use. Different types of buildings are in the city. We have wood, unreinforced masonry, you have high rise and you have tilt ups. Whats the safest construction type to be . Four stories or less. Wood . Yeah, wood framed building. Why is wood the safest building to be in, 4 stories or less . It flexes, yeah, its flexible. Whats the danger here . Chimney, yeah, fireplace. Be aware of the...

80 percent of the people. The next 30 percent of the people can be rescued by you people. Then theres another 15 percent, thats where the Fire Department comes in, or the sheriffs department, people who are trained to do those type of rescue. The other 5 percent is by specialized teams, the usar teams. If you are to get to somebody within the first 30 minutes, they have a 99 percent chance a greater than 99 percent chance of surviving. Get to them within the first day, it dropping down to 81 percent. Still not bad. But what happens on the second day . Plummets quite a bit, just under 34 percen...