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WASHINGTON — The American Red Cross and other disaster relief charities are unprepared to meet projected mass casualty needs during a natural catastrophe or terrorist attack in major U.S. cities, a government report has found.
A large-scale disaster would “overwhelm” the Red Cross and other nonprofit organizations that have federal responsibilities for assisting the government in feeding and sheltering victims, concludes the analysis, which is to be released today by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office.
The report also faults the Federal Emergency Management Agency for not fully assessing the capacities of relief groups and for not clearly documenting the roles that each should play in a disaster.
