The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Apr 26, 2011 20:24:38 EDT
Posted : Tuesday Apr 26, 2011 20:24:38 EDT
ATHENS, Ga. — Governments face bigger challenges in responding to disasters, in part because the calamities seem to be getting bigger, the retired Coast Guard commandant who oversaw the cleanup of the largest oil spill in U.S. history said Tuesday.
Retired Adm. Thad Allen, 62, said the biggest change in disaster response may be how advances like the Internet have altered the public’s involvement and expectations.
Allen, in Athens to deliver the Getzen Lecture on Government Accountability at the University of Georgia, made daily headlines around the globe last spring and summer as the National Incident Commander for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico....
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