When men and women firefighters were working beyond 30 hours straight to combat the enormous wildfires in California, FEMA decided to take the opportunity to improve its image by staging a fake news conference to boost its image in handling the disaster. The problem is that the news media and the websites found this fraudulent act, and the public outrage started to pour in. I do not think this puppet show was headed by the Whitehouse, because it seems the Whitehouse Press Secretary Ms. Perino was unaware of the situation. But this deceiving event truly shows the incompetency of an agency that is responsible for major disasters in the United States. So, what is my short opinion of their show? Sick and disgusting.

As I mentioned, there are a lot of people working long hours to protect homes and to prevent the fires from spreading to other areas. They are under constant heat and the air is probably full of burned smell. These people are the true heroes, who left their own homes to save other neighborhoods. Walking through hill sides to face the formidable flames truly shows their bravery and sacrifice to protect the public from the approaching threat. And in Washington we have a bunch of bureaucrats in FEMA, and they thoughts that it would be in the public’s interest of staging a puppet show for the public to boost the agency’s image while men and women in the other side of the continent are fighting against the flames.

The facts about the FEMA puppet shows are these. The press was given fifteen minute notice, and no press could make it on time to the conference. FEMA employees, posing as reporters, asked questions to the agency’s deputy director Harvey E. Johnson. If the public saw the puppet show, then they would have believed that it was an ordinary press conference except the tone of the questioning. Fake reporters from FEMA asked comforting questions to the deputy director, giving a false sense of positive tone of the agency. I truly applaud the organizers of the puppet show for setting the lowest moment of FEMA. It truly breaks the hearts and trust of Californians who had to evacuate their homes and live in a constant state of fear, whether their homes are still standing.

After the California fire situation is under control, I expect Homeland Security to fire some officials for staging the deceiving puppet show for the public. My confidence in FEMA is truly non-existent, but I would never have expected the agency for trying to deceive the public for the sake of improving the agency’s image. This is worse than Mr. Brown’s handling of the Katrina disaster in Louisiana.